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Selected Students' Eurocentric Attitudes About Agriculture
(2010-10-12)
Eurocentrism suggests a western model of daily life that should be adopted, because it is seen as the only solution to the world's challenges. Studies identified that students' perceptions of their own global awareness and ...
Examining the Antecedents of Behavioral Intentions in a Tourism Context
(2010-07-14)
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the structure and
antecedents of travelers' behavioral intentions. Understanding travelers' behavioral
intentions is an important goal of both destination marketing ...
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT: A DESCRIPTIVE MIXED METHOD STUDY OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES DURING SIGNIFICANT ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
(2010-07-14)
This study explores the extent to which organizational culture and operational
environment influence the leadership activities of an organization in the midst of
significant organizational change and whether culture drives ...
Chinese Americans in China: Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and Roots Tourism
(2010-07-14)
In the era of advanced communication and transportation technology, immigrants and
their descendents can be reunited with their ancestral land from where they or their
forebears once were displaced. Visiting the ancestral ...
Simplified Method for Estimating Future Scour Depth at Existing Bridges
(2010-07-14)
Bridge scour is the term which describes the erosion of soil surrounding a bridge
foundation due to water. Bridge scour can cause the reduction of the load carrying
capacity of bridge foundations, excessive foundation ...
Development of a Continuous Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE) Process
(2010-10-12)
Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE) has great potential for developing ultrafine
grain structure consisting of homogeneous and equiaxed grains dominated by high
angle grain boundaries. In addition, the ECAE-processed ...
ADVANCED NANOIMPRINT TECHNIQUE FOR MULTILAYER STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL POLYMER APPLICATIONS
(2010-07-14)
Three-dimensional (3D) polymer structures are very attractive because the
extra structural dimension can provide denser integration and superior performance to
accomplish complex tasks. Successful fabrication of 3D multilayer ...
Design and Simulation of a Passive-Scattering Nozzle in Proton Beam Radiotherapy
(2010-07-14)
Proton beam radiotherapy is an emerging treatment tool for cancer. Its basic principle is to use a high-energy proton beam to deposit energy in a tumor to kill the cancer cells while sparing the surrounding healthy tissues. ...
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Heat Transfer In Nanoscale Liquid Films
(2010-07-14)
Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of nano-scale flows typically utilize fixed
lattice crystal interactions between the fluid and stationary wall molecules. This
approach cannot properly model thermal interactions at the ...
An Automated System for the Creation of Articulated Mechanical Parts
(2010-07-14)
Proposes a new method to model the geometric form of articulated mechanical
parts while simultaneously testing their range of motion in relation to other nearby parts.
Utilizing a database of mechanical parts in virtual ...