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Desired Competencies of Employees on International Agricultural Development Projects as Indicated by Project Managers: A Qualitative Study
(2011-08-08)
International agricultural development institutions previously hired employees based on their technical expertise, and, with little to no formal training in development, were sent to live abroad with one goal: implement ...
Deep Placement Gel Bank as an Improved Oil Recovery Process: Modeling, Economic Analysis and Comparison to Polymer Flooding
(2011-08-08)
Many attempts have been made to control water conformance. It is very costly to
produce, treat and dispose of water, and produced water represents the largest waste
stream associated with oil and gas production. The ...
Bi-directional Current-fed Medium Frequency Transformer Isolated AC-DC Converter
(2011-08-08)
The use of high power converters has increased tremendously. Increased demand for
transportation, housing and industrial needs means that more number of power
converters interact with the utility power grid. These converters ...
The Development of an Academically-Based Entertainment-Education (ABEE) Model: Co-opting Behavioral Change Efficacy of Entertainment-Education for Academic Learning Targeting the Societal Landscape of U.S. Geographic Illiteracy
(2011-07-22)
Educators and scholars continue to lament United States citizens' geographic illiteracy and are calling on Congress to address the crisis. However, despite recent public attention, a lack of national commitment to teaching ...
Thickness Measurement of Fracture Fluid Gel Filter Cake after Static Build Up and Shear Erosion
(2011-08-08)
The hydraulic fracturing treatment is an essential tight sand gas reservoir
stimulation that employs viscous fluid to break the formation rock to create a fracture
and transport the propping agent to support the fracture ...
Nanofabrication, Plasmon Enhanced Fluorescence and Photo-oxidation Kinetics of CdSe Nanoparticles
(2011-08-08)
Unconventional nanofabrication techniques; both those which have been newly
developed and those under development, had brought inexpensive, facile, yet high
quality means to fabricate nanostructures that have feature sizes ...
Examining International Students’ Psychosocial Adjustment to Life in the United States
(2011-08-08)
This dissertation, containing two journal-formatted manuscripts, examines factors associated with international students' psychosocial adjustment to life in the United States. In the first manuscript, I systematically ...
Investigation of Metalloproteins Utilizing High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
(2011-08-08)
Copper ions (Cu⁺, Cu²⁺) play important roles in many biological processes (i.e., oxidation, dioxygen transport, and electron transfer); many of the functions in these processes result from copper ions interacting with ...
The Umbrella File System: Storage Management Across Heterogeneous Devices
(2011-08-08)
With the advent of Flash based solid state devices (SSDs), the differences in physical devices used to store data in computers are becoming more and more pronounced. Effectively mapping the differences in storage devices ...
The Emotional Context of First Sexual Intercourse on Current Sexual Guilt
(2011-10-21)
This dissertation presents three separate studies examining the effects of an individual's emotional response to their sexual initiation and their current feelings of sexual guilt. First, a systematic review of the ...