Slot virtual impactors provide an efficient low power method of concentrating aerosols. A circumferential slot virtual impactor (CSVI) is especially effective because it has a continuous slot, and, therefore, has no losses ...

Bayesian statistical methods are known for their flexibility in modeling. This flexibility is possible because parameters can often be estimated via Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. In large datasets or models with many ...

This research consisted of two studies. The purpose of the first study was to examine the presence and quality of fidelity of implementation as reported in recent early reading intervention research. A comprehensive search ...

This two-study examination was designed to explore aspects of the home literacy environment (HLE) in relation to young English Language Learners’ (ELLs) Spanish literacy development and to critically examine the approaches ...

This investigation of the theory of biorhythms (TOB) developed by Fleiss-Swoboda-Teltscher was a dual design: a macro analysis involving a single measurement for each unit of observation in a large sample, and a micro ...

This thesis describes a tool called TXSAMC (Transport Cross Sections from Applied Monte Carlo) that produces shielded and homogenized multigroup cross sections for small fast reactor systems. The motivation for this tool ...

This work introduces new type curve solutions for an unfractured well in an infinite-acting naturally fractured reservoir, including wellbore storage and skin effects. Both pseudosteady-state¹ and transient²⁻³ interporosity ...

This dissertation presents three separate studies designed to examine how the different factors and determinants known to influence adolescent alcohol and tobacco use and the gender compositions of different adolescent ...

Foredunes are formed and developed in association with vegetation. A bare sand area has been viewed as a measure of dune mobility or activity and researched in association with climate controls: particularly wind power, ...

Sediment delivery to Texas and the northwestern Gulf of Mexico during the Early Paleogene represents an initial cycle of tectonic-influenced deposition that corresponds with the timing of late Laramide uplift. Sediments ...