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Communicating 21st century statecraft: Evaluating the paradigm shift argument
(2011-10-21)
This project examines how social media is being used by individuals within the State Department engaged in public diplomacy and how the use of these technologies may or may not represent a paradigm shift in diplomatic ...
Design of an Integrated System to Recycle Zircaloy Cladding Using a Hydride-Milling-Dehydride Process
(2011-10-21)
A process for recycling spent nuclear fuel cladding, a zirconium alloy (Zircaloy), into a metal powder that may be used for advanced nuclear fuel applications, was investigated to determine if it is a viable strategy. The ...
CoNiGa High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys
(2011-10-21)
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are an important class of smart materials that have
the ability to remember a shape. Current practical uses of SMAs are limited to below
100 degrees C which is the limit for the transformation ...
Phonemic Awareness and Its Impact on Emerging Spanish Literacy in Bilingual Classrooms
(2011-10-21)
This quantitative study has been derived from a five-year federal experimental research project entitled English and Literacy Acquisition (ELLA- R305P030032) which targeted Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELLs) ...
Statistical Analysis of the Fourth Case Study in Reverse Auction Research
(2011-10-21)
Participating in an auction and winning items by placing bids has been in practice since at least 500 B.C. Auctions have evolved since then and anyone can now participate in one online and buy items ranging from clothes, ...
Environmental Processes, Social Perspectives and Economic Valuations of the Coast
(2011-10-21)
Coastal ecosystems provide important resources for social, economic and environmental capital to global and local communities. Socially, coastal ecosystems provide a place for people to recreate and get in touch with nature. ...
Analysis of the Three-dimensional Superradiance Problem and Some Generalizations
(2011-10-21)
We study the integral equation related to the three and higher dimensional
superradiance problem. Collective radiation phenomena has attracted the attention
of many physicists and chemists since the pioneering work of R. ...
Identification of Structural Changes Associated with Regulation of Tyrosine Hydroxylase
(2011-10-21)
Tyrosine hydroxylase (TyrH) is the first and rate-limiting enzyme of
catecholamine synthetic pathway, and its regulation is critical for controlling
catecholamine synthesis. The well recognized regulatory mechanisms are ...
Bias Reduction and Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Conditional Logistic Regression Models
(2011-10-21)
This dissertation consists of three projects in matched case-control studies. In the first
project, we employ a general bias preventive approach developed by Firth (1993) to handle
the bias of an estimator of the log-odds ...
Combining Metadata, Inferred Similarity of Content, and Human Interpretation for Managing and Listening to Music Collections
(2011-10-21)
Music services, media players and managers provide support for content
classification and access based on filtering metadata values, statistics of access and user
ratings. This approach fails to capture characteristics of ...