Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2012-02-14)Increased pulsatile release of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) is critical for pubertal initiation of ovarian cycles in female mammals. Kisspeptin, a peptide product of the Kiss1 gene, ...
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(2012-10-19)The twentieth century was dominated by two rival views of scientific explanation. The first is the causal view in which causation is primitive. According to this view, the best explanations are the ones that tell us the ...
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(2010-10-12)In the early 1980s Bulgarian archaeologists of the newly established Centre for Underwater Archaeology at Sozopol discovered the remains of a post-medieval ship in the southern Bay of Kitten, in the lee of Cape Urdoviza. ...
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(2016-04-08)Dry reforming of methane is one of the few chemical reactions which can effectively convert carbon dioxide (CO2), a major green-house gas, into a valuable chemical precursor, syngas (a mixture of CO and H2), that can be ...
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(2016-03-24)The Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise (KLJN) scheme is a statistical/physical secure key exchange system based on the laws of classical statistical physics to provide unconditional security. This dissertation contains three main ...
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(2015-07-30)The study of the neurovascular network in the brain is important to understand brain functions as well as causes of several brain dysfunctions. Many techniques have been applied to acquire neurovascular data. The Knife-Edge ...
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(2013-07-17)The microstructure of the brain at the cellular level provides crucial information for the understanding of the function of the brain. A large volume of high-resolution brain image data from 3D microscopy is an essential ...
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(2020-07-22)The properties of shape memory alloy (SMA) wires have long been leveraged in a variety of industries. Straight wires using the shape memory effect have been used as linear actuators in applications that range from valve ...
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(2009-05-15)The goal of this study is to align teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) with their classroom instruction. To reduce the classroom complexity while keeping the connection between teaching and learning, I ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Given the importance placed on probability and statistics in the PK-8 curriculum by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2000) and on teachers by the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium ...
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(2021-06-23)Educators increase the likelihood of positive student outcomes when they consistently prioritize the use EBPs during instruction. Maximizing the impact of instructional time through evidence-based practices (EBPs) is ...
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(2016-05-04)Regional site suitability for wine grape varieties is generally considered to be closely related to environmental conditions. However, the global spatial distribution of grape varieties is also strongly influenced by ...
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(2015-12-04)Higher education institutions (HEIs) have applied knowledge management (KM) to leverage organizational knowledge in support of their institutional achievements. HEIs need a holistic conceptualization of how KM processes ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This dissertation investigates three sets of research questions. First, how can partner selection be used as a mechanism to minimize R&D alliance participantsâ concerns about knowledge leakage? And what is the nature ...
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(2021-05-19)In engineering and life science applications, designing reliable and reproducible predictors is of utmost importance and interest. On one hand, the amount of available data for the application and problem of interest may ...
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(2020-05-13)With the emergence of ubiquitous environmental monitoring systems in the past few decades, we are gaining unprecedented ability to collect vast amounts of spatiotemporal environmental data. However, it still remains a ...
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(2010-07-14)I have structured my master's thesis in terms of an opposition between Kojeve's existentialist, Marxist philosophical formulation of Hegel's Phenomenology and Levinas's post-Heideggerian, anti-Hegelian phenomenology in ...
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(2009-05-15)This study examined the motivation for learning English, the amount of contact with English, and length of residence in the target language area that affects Korean graduate students’ English pragmatic skills studying at ...
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(2018-05-07)As English has positioned itself as a lingua franca in various fields including academia, the importance of acquiring fluent English proficiency in South Korea is emphasized. As a way of improving its citizens’ English ...
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Kurdish Children Under the Shadow of Turkish Anti-Terror Law: Sovereignty, Lawfare and Abandonment (2019-06-20)Since the early 2000s, the Turkish socio-political landscape has witnessed a lawfare whereby the total number of adjudications and parliamentary legislations has notably increased, political grievances are taken to ...