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Two Essay in Labor and Public Economics
(2011-10-21)
This dissertation studies the effects of female labor market participation on fertility spacing in U.S., and the impact of special language programs on academic achievement of English language learners in Texas public ...
The Effects of Bilingual Placement and Middle School Transition on the Sense of School Belonging in Hispanic Students
(2011-10-21)
Because bilingual programs provide a secure environment likely to promote school belonging, it was hypothesized that Hispanic students in a bilingual program would experience higher belonging than those in regular education ...
A Study to Verify the Material Surface Concept of Water Table by Examining Analytical and Numerical Models.
(2011-10-21)
The highly nonlinear nature of unsaturated flow results in different ways to approximate the delayed or instantaneous movement of the water table. In nearly all the approaches, the water table is conceptually treated as a ...
Applications of B-Lactones: Utility of Spiroepoxy-B-Lactones and Development of a Double Diastereoselective Nucleophile Catalyzed, Aldol-Lactonization Process Leading to !-Lactone Fused Carbocycles and Tetrahydrofurans
(2011-10-21)
Natural products continue to inspire synthetic chemists to develop novel
methodologies to provide efficient and expedient syntheses of the target molecules.
Haterumalide NA aroused our interest and prompted development of ...
Semantic Routed Network for Distributed Search Engines
(2011-08-08)
Searching for textual information has become an important activity on the web. To satisfy the
rising demand and user expectations, search systems should be fast, scalable and deliver relevant
results. To decide which objects ...
Development of MELCOR Input Techniques for High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Analysis
(2011-08-08)
High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGRs) can provide clean electricity,as well as process heat that can be used to produce hydrogen for transportation and
other sectors. A prototypic HTGR, the Next Generation Nuclear ...
Select Nutrients, Secreted Phosphoprotein 1 and Insulin-Like Growth Factor 2: Effects of Trophectoderm of Ovine Conceptuses
(2011-08-08)
Histotroph, secretions from luminal (LE), superficial glandular (sGE) and
glandular (GE) epithelia and molecules selectively transported into the uterine lumen,
are essential for peri-implantation ovine conceptus development ...
Morphology in Word Recognition: Hindi and Urdu
(2011-08-08)
The present research examined whether morphology influences word recognition independently of form-level word properties. Prevailing views attribute cross-linguistic differences in morphological processing to variations ...
Adapting a Beam-Based Rotordynamics Model to Accept a General Three-Dimensional Finite-Element Casing Model
(2011-08-08)
The subject of this thesis is an extension of a two-dimensional, axisymmetric, Timoshenko-beam finite-element rotordynamic code to include a three-dimensional non-axisymmetric solid-element casing model. Axisymmetric beams ...
Targeted Inactivation of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium in Fresh Cantaloupe Flesh (Cucumis melo L.) Using Electron Beam Irradiation
(2011-08-08)
Food irradiation is costly in terms of the energy utilized and the time spent, therefore, it is imperative to optimize it in order to avoid sub lethal dose or an overdose both of which have detrimental effects on the quality ...