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Simulations of Design Modifications in Military Health Facilities
(2012-07-16)
The Military Health System (MHS) is a worldwide network of healthcare facilities and personnel. The healthcare facility inventory is aging and requires extensive facility management, renovations and replacement construction ...
Systematic Analysis of Genetic and Pharmaceutical Modulators of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle
(2012-10-19)
Cell replication and division are central to the proliferation of life, and have implications for normal growth and development as well as disease state. Assembly of a complete picture of the systems which control this ...
The Drivers of Mergers and Acquisitions in Pharmaceutical Industry
(2012-07-16)
We examine the determinants and drivers of 112 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities exceed 50 million values in the pharmaceutical industry using COMPUSTAT, SDC and FDA data during the period 1980-2010 with random ...
Survey for Intergeneric Pollen Tube Growth in Intergeneric Pollinations Utilizing the iap Allele in Sorghum bicolor
(2012-02-14)
Hybridization within Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench has been the primary means of creating genetic diversity needed for sorghum crop improvement. While significant variation exists within S. bicolor, there are several traits ...
Factors Affecting Parents' Decisions to Treat Their Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Complementary and Alternative Treatments
(2012-10-19)
Autism affects approximately one in 110 children in the United States. Many parents choose to treat their children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with complementary and alternative (CAM) treatments. In this study, ...
Ethnographic Studies of School Science and Science Communities
(2012-07-16)
In this dissertation I used the anthropological and sociocultural perspectives to examine the culture of school science and science communities. I conducted three independent studies. The first study is a meta-ethnography ...
Essays on Network Formation
(2012-10-19)
This dissertation contains two essays which examine the roles that individual incentives, competition, and information play in network formation. In the first essay, I examine a model in which two competing groups offer ...
Analog Baseband Filters and Mixed Signal Circuits for Broadband Receiver Systems
(2012-02-14)
Data transfer rates of communication systems continue to rise fueled by aggressive demand for voice, video and Internet data. Device scaling enabled by modern lithography has paved way for System-on-Chip solutions integrating ...
Gender Equity and Fertility in European Below-Replacement Fertility Countries: Poland and Estonia
(2012-02-14)
Much of the recent scholarly attention has been devoted to the low fertility situation experienced by a growing number of developed countries. In this context, the theoretical framework explicitly incorporating the issues ...
Enhanced Oil Recovery in High Salinity High Temperature Reservoir by Chemical Flooding
(2012-02-14)
Studying chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in a high-temperature/high-salinity (HT/HS) reservoir will help expand the application of chemical EOR to more challenging environments. Until recently, chemical EOR was not ...