Among the multiple dimensions of reading, vocabulary knowledge and strategies are essential to skilled reading. As a result, this two-part dissertation (a) systematically examines the vocabulary intervention research, in ...

Students in Sub-Sahara Africa face a deluge of academic challenges that hinder literacy development. Post-colonization remnants in Zambia are evident in its educational system that, until recent changes in educational ...

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 ...

Tyler County Development Strategy document assesses some strategies for the future growth of the county by focusing on the asset of the community. This document was developed by Texas Target Communities in partnership ...

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, ...