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Emotion Regulation Profiles: Identification Of Subgroups During Middle Childhood, Kelly Buckholdt
Emotion Regulation Profiles: Identification Of Subgroups During Middle Childhood, Kelly Buckholdt
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This study utilizes a unique approach for examining the role of emotion-related characteristics in predicting adjustment during childhood. The first aim of this study was to examine emotion-related characteristics using a person-centered approach in order to identify subgroups of children based on emotion regulation profiles. These profiles consisted of scores on nine emotion-related variables, assessed through children's self-reports of the experience and expression of sadness and anger, as well as the strategies they used for modifying these emotions. The second aim of the study was to determine if subgroup membership was associated with self- and peer-reports of adjustment (i.e., self-reported …
Increasing Subjective Client Agency For Psychotherapy At A Veterans Administration Hospital: A Process-Outcome Study, Rachel A. Coleman
Increasing Subjective Client Agency For Psychotherapy At A Veterans Administration Hospital: A Process-Outcome Study, Rachel A. Coleman
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Subjective client agency, defined as client expectations for actively influencing therapy process and outcome, is hypothesized to contribute to psychotherapy process and outcome. Previous work has linked higher degrees of subjective client agency to more positive client ratings of the therapeutic working alliance, while results for outcome studies are mostly non-significant. The current project extended the limited body of research in this area by (a) examining associations for subjective client agency at the outset of group therapy with ratings of group process, therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome for 84 clients at a Veterans Administration outpatient clinic, and (b) attempting to …
Does Initiation Of Early Nutrition Support Improve With Physician Education?, Brittany Carol Haynes
Does Initiation Of Early Nutrition Support Improve With Physician Education?, Brittany Carol Haynes
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ObjectiveTo determine the effectiveness of physician education on achieving earlier initiation of nutrition support, and to determine the effects of early nutrition support on patient outcomes of hospital length of stay (LOS), intensive care unit (ICU) LOS, and days on mechanical ventilation.DesignThis was a prospective study evaluating the effectiveness of Nestle Nutrition's Nourish Now™ program in acheiving earlier enteral nutrition in ICU patients at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, TN. The effect of early enteral feeding on the patient outcomes of length of hospital stay, length of ICU stay, and days on mechanical ventilation were also examined.Subjects 150 patients were …
Temporal Subjectivities: Time And Difference In Hegel's Thought, Kristin Sue Gissberg
Temporal Subjectivities: Time And Difference In Hegel's Thought, Kristin Sue Gissberg
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The primary purpose of the dissertation is to fill what I saw to be a gap in Hegelian scholarship, and in particular, in feminist critiques of Hegel. What I have found to be lacking in much of the literature on Hegel, and those that centerpiece his understanding of subjective differences, is that by isolating parts of his thought, they do not follow his work through to its conclusion, and in doing such, they critique him for a position he does not commit to. In reply, the dissertation assumes a double gesture: I take up the feminist concern with difference generally …
An Examination Of The Principals And Teachers Relative To Elements Of Shared Decision Making In Selected Urban, Suburban, And Rural Schools, Andrea M. Foxx
An Examination Of The Principals And Teachers Relative To Elements Of Shared Decision Making In Selected Urban, Suburban, And Rural Schools, Andrea M. Foxx
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Schools nationwide are experimenting with methods that promise to better educate students and improve schools performance. The educational structure in the United States has been moving from primarily centralized systems to more decentralized ones. Shared decision making is designed to improve education by increasing the autonomy of the school staff to make school site decisions. The purpose of this study was to investigate the actual and desired levels of shared decision making as perceived by teachers in public elementary schools in West Tennessee. In this study two research questions were posed: (1) How do teachers and principals rank the educational …
Predictors Of Wait-Time For Antibiotic Initiation And Its Association With Length Of Hospital Stay And Icu-Admission Among Children With Cancer At The Southern Philippine Medical Center, Jeannette Enk Kirby
Predictors Of Wait-Time For Antibiotic Initiation And Its Association With Length Of Hospital Stay And Icu-Admission Among Children With Cancer At The Southern Philippine Medical Center, Jeannette Enk Kirby
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A window of one hour or less from start of signs and symptoms of infection to antibiotic administration (AWT) is considered good clinical practice in developed countries, but less feasible in resource poor countries. This study aimed to identify predictors of AWT and studied its association with hospital length of stay (LOS) and intensive care unit (ICU) admission. A survey of healthcare providers assessed quality of care associated with the institutional capacity and response. AWT averaged four days with patient status being the only predictor upon multivariate analysis. For predictors associated with outcomes, parental education and patient status were associated …
Hydrologic Pulses Of Agricultural Waters: Effects On Wetland Plants And Soils In The Greenhouse, Constructed Drainage Ditches, And Bottomland Hardwood Forests, Melissa Boyce Koontz
Hydrologic Pulses Of Agricultural Waters: Effects On Wetland Plants And Soils In The Greenhouse, Constructed Drainage Ditches, And Bottomland Hardwood Forests, Melissa Boyce Koontz
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Upstream water management affects downstream ecology, especially the wetland plants and soil. The primary goal of this dissertation was to quantify the dynamic responses of plants and soil to variable hydrologic inputs. Measurements were taken at different spatial scales, which were in the greenhouse, constructed drainage ditches, and bottomland hardwood forests. Wetland plants grown in greenhouse conditions were exposed to variable hydrology and aqueous nitrogen fertilization treatments. The study species was rice cutgrass, Leersia oryzoides. Individual plants were able to modify physiological responses, elemental tissue concentrations, and biomass allocation in order to withstand environmental stress. The plants grown in partially …
When Worldviews Collide: What Linguistic Style Matching And Distal Language Reveal About Deception In Political Discourse, Lucille Marie Booker
When Worldviews Collide: What Linguistic Style Matching And Distal Language Reveal About Deception In Political Discourse, Lucille Marie Booker
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Political discourse is an observable, measurable, and testable manifestation of political worldviews. However, when worldviews collide, notions of truth and of lies are put to the test. The challenge for researchers is how to establish confidence in their analysis. Despite the growing interest in deception research from a diversity of fields and industries, the trend is to focus on validating the assessment approach to the data without considering validity issues related to the data itself. Such a trend is concerned more with how to assess linguistic features and less with what is being assessed. By contrast, this dissertation is concerned …
Gender Based Music Instrument Stereotypes And Counter-Stereotypes Portrayed In Children's Animated Media, Qiana M. Lamb
Gender Based Music Instrument Stereotypes And Counter-Stereotypes Portrayed In Children's Animated Media, Qiana M. Lamb
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This study investigated the appearance of gender based music instrument stereotypes and counter-stereotypes portrayed in children's cartoons. The images that were presented were organized by instrument families (i.e., brass, woodwind and percussion) and quantified to determine the frequency in which young children were exposed to specific music instrument stereotypes and counter-stereotypes. The results found that children's cartoons portrayed both music instrument stereotypes and counter-stereotypes, with certain instruments being shown as more stereotypical than others. The flute was played by only female characters and the majority of all brass instruments were performed by male characters. However, percussion instruments which are typically …
The Effects Of Personal Grief On Organizational Outcomes: A Qualitative Investigation, Charlotte Ann Davis
The Effects Of Personal Grief On Organizational Outcomes: A Qualitative Investigation, Charlotte Ann Davis
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Most individuals experience considerable emotional pain and grief due to the death of someone near and dear to them in their lifetimes. These painful experiences have the potential to affect individually-valued and organizationally-valued outcomes. In most organizations, employees are provided with a very limited amount of time for coping with the grieving process before they are expected to perform the normal duties and responsibilities associated with their work roles. Even though we know that the process of grief associated with the loss of a loved one can have traumatic consequences for the employee, there is little in the research literature, …
Teacher Perceptions Of Middle School Concept Implementation And Effect Upon Science Achievement, Shelly Lindsey Bruce
Teacher Perceptions Of Middle School Concept Implementation And Effect Upon Science Achievement, Shelly Lindsey Bruce
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The current educational reform intends to enhance our nation's competitiveness through specific focus upon curricular and instructional improvement of math and science education for all students in America. The implementation of nationwide common internationally-benchmarked standards is purposed to advance student academic performance through enriched curriculum and better prepared teachers. This research investigates the relationship between school demographics and implementation of the middle school concept to improved science achievement. A teacher questionnaire and state testing data will be utilized to determine: (1) which middle school concept characteristics, within each of the three domains of curriculum, instruction and advising, and school governance, …
The Relationship Of Campanian Paleoseismites In The Eagle Formation To Initial Laramide Deformation Of The Elk Basin Anticline, Wyoming And Montana, William Thomas Jackson Jr.
The Relationship Of Campanian Paleoseismites In The Eagle Formation To Initial Laramide Deformation Of The Elk Basin Anticline, Wyoming And Montana, William Thomas Jackson Jr.
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Paleoseismites occur throughout the Campanian package exposed in the Elk Basin anticline. Within marine units convolute-bedding typically involves single sandstone beds with vertical to overturned strata on either side of a near-vertical vent, whereas the non-marine Eagle Formation contains planar clastic dikes derived from liquefied sand-source beds. Liquefied sand was injected upward and laterally across mudstone and/or coal along pre-existing planar, near-vertical, near-surface joints. Orientations of 145 sandstone-dikes were compared with 61 previously reported Laramide joint-orientations. Although dike- and joint-trends are similar, dikes preferentially fill cross-joints whereas strike-joints are the dominant later Laramide joint-set. Dike orientations are consistent with their …
Leaf And Root Responses Of Three Wetland Tree Species To Anthropogenic-Generated Stressors, Donald Reon Baud
Leaf And Root Responses Of Three Wetland Tree Species To Anthropogenic-Generated Stressors, Donald Reon Baud
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Baud, Donald Reon. PhD. University of Memphis. December 2012. Leaf and Root Responses of Three Wetland Tree Species to Anthropogenic-generated Stressors. Major Professor: S. Reza Pezeshki.Published research to date has shown that anthropogenic-generated stressors, such as increased ultraviolet-B exposure, higher temperatures and the concomitant increase in herbivorous insect populations, as well as increased copper and ethanol contamination, are having a negative impact on plant growth and survival. However, there is a lack of data on the morphological and physiological responses woody wetland species. This series of independent, but related, experiments will focus on Salix nigra, Acer negundo, and Quercus phellos, …
Women In Prison: Planning The Getaway: Vocational Education In A Southern Women's Correctional Institution, Aimee Michelle Burgdorf
Women In Prison: Planning The Getaway: Vocational Education In A Southern Women's Correctional Institution, Aimee Michelle Burgdorf
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The purpose of this research was to examine the vocational programs available to female inmates incarcerated in the only female prison in a southern state, to explore these inmates' thoughts, feelings, and perspectives about the programs available to them, and to determine whether these programs are unintentionally gender-biased or gender-stereotypical. Additionally, data were collected reflecting the vocational education instructors' thoughts, feelings, and perspectives on their programs as well as on the the inmate students enrolled in their programs. Additionally, detailed vocational program descriptions were obtained from the facility. These documents provided information about the kinds of jobs available for each …
The Role Of Academic Help-Seeking Attitudes, Achievement Goal Orientations, And Dissertation Self-Efficacy In Dissertation Progress, Tisha Stoll Colvin
The Role Of Academic Help-Seeking Attitudes, Achievement Goal Orientations, And Dissertation Self-Efficacy In Dissertation Progress, Tisha Stoll Colvin
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The current study explored socialization variables (academic discipline, part-time versus full-time enrollment status, and student involvement with research and teaching assistantships) and educational psychological variables (academic help-seeking attitudes, achievement goal orientations, and dissertation self-efficacy) in relation to dissertation progress. The primary research questions were 1) What is the unique relationship between the educational psychological variables of academic help-seeking attitudes, achievement goal orientations, dissertation self-efficacy, and dissertation progress over and above the socialization variables of academic discipline, enrollment status, and student involvement in research and teaching assistantships? 2) Is there a significant difference between the academic help-seeking attitudes of PhD candidates …
Factors Affecting Infectivity And Pathogenicity Of Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis In Amphibians., Forrest Michael Brem
Factors Affecting Infectivity And Pathogenicity Of Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis In Amphibians., Forrest Michael Brem
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Wildlife diseases are a current threat to biodiversity, and amphibians have suffered the greatest disease-induced declines and extinctions in history. Chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), has contributed to recent pandemic population declines and extinctions of amphibians. My dissertation focused on factors that affect infectivity and pathogenicity of Bd in amphibian hosts. I demonstrated variation in critical aspects of Bd biology between Bd isolates from different climates, Panama and the USA. Panamanian Bd had larger thalli, higher overall zoospore production, and longer duration of zoospore production than Bd from the USA. I also demonstrated time-dependent rates of …
Encouraged By A Little Progress: Voting Rights And The Contests Over Social Place And Civil Society In Tennessee's Fayette And Haywood Counties, 1958-1964, Richard Lavell Saunders
Encouraged By A Little Progress: Voting Rights And The Contests Over Social Place And Civil Society In Tennessee's Fayette And Haywood Counties, 1958-1964, Richard Lavell Saunders
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Between 1958 and 1964 the citizens of black-majority populations in adjoining West Tennessee counties struggled to claim and exercise citizens' rights to participate in civil society. Voting rights activism amon the black community was answered with an economic embargo conducted by county officials and the busines community. Voting rights were the fracture point in civic society as both counties made the change from tenant to mechanized agriculture and wrestled over the civil and economic position of a no-longer-necessary laboring population. This study examines voter registration as a catalyst of socioeconomic change and social discourse in rural America. During the 1960s …
On Integer Sequences, Packings And Games On Graphs, Ago-Erik Riet
On Integer Sequences, Packings And Games On Graphs, Ago-Erik Riet
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This dissertation concerns four problems in combinatorics. In Chapter 2 we consider the Prolonger-Shortener game of F saturation, introduced by Füredi, Reimer and Seress: Players take turns drawing edges on an initially edgeless vertex set of size n with the restriction that they do not complete a copy of a graph in F. The game ends when no more edges can be drawn. Prolonger wants as many edges as possible at the end of the game and Shortener as few as possible. We ask what is the final number of edges with both players playing optimally when F is a …
3d Double Difference Velocity Tomography Of The Middle America Subduction Zone Beneath Nicaragua And Costa Rica, Melissa M. Driskell
3d Double Difference Velocity Tomography Of The Middle America Subduction Zone Beneath Nicaragua And Costa Rica, Melissa M. Driskell
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Waveform and arrival onset data collected on five amphibious arrays deployed along the Costa Rica-Nicaragua portion of the Middle America subduction zone are integrated to conduct high resolution velocity and location studies. Pick quality is evaluated using an automated arrival detection algorithm based on the wavelet transform and Akaike information criterion, resulting in revised pick weights for inversion studies. I explore the effect of new weighting and removal of poor data by relocating hypocenters through a minimum one dimensional velocity model and conducting double-difference local earthquake tomography (LET). Analysis of the hypocenter relocation and seismic velocity tomography results suggest that …
Investor Disagreement On Corporate Spin-Offs News, Daewon Kim
Investor Disagreement On Corporate Spin-Offs News, Daewon Kim
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This study analyzes temporal trading volume surge associated with a firm's public announcement of its spinoff divesture. Combining Miller's (1977) static difference-of-opinion (DO) model with Banerjee and Kremer's (2010) dynamic DO model, this study investigates the effects of investors' differential interpretations of spinoff announcements on price changes for 221 corporate spinoffs in the U.S from 1964 to 2005. We measure the ex-ante level of DO as the degree of DO about a firm's value in a typical trading day prior to a spinoff announcement, and the event level of DO as the changed level of DO triggered by investors' differential …
Genetic And Demographic Patterns Of The Raccoon (Procyon Lotor) Across Extended Spatio-Temporal Scales, John R. Hisey
Genetic And Demographic Patterns Of The Raccoon (Procyon Lotor) Across Extended Spatio-Temporal Scales, John R. Hisey
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Population features and genetic structure of raccoons (Procyon lotor) and many other solitary-mammalian species are relatively unknown. To better understand these characteristics in P. lotor, microsatellite data collected at local, area, and transcontinental scales and 14 years of local mark-recapture data were used to assess the temporal and spatial extent of philopatry, dispersal, formation of lineages, and genetic patterns associated with these factors. Specifically, I tested the following predictions for raccoons: (1) long-term residency is common; (2) patterns of genetic variation are associated with isolation by distance; (3) closely related animals remain spatially clustered. Only 26 of 215 P. lotor …
Using Computer Assisted Tomography To Acquire More Detailed Subject Specific Information For Kinematic Analysis, Devin J. Conner
Using Computer Assisted Tomography To Acquire More Detailed Subject Specific Information For Kinematic Analysis, Devin J. Conner
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Experimental knee simulators have been used to study knee kinematics of total knee replacements (TKR) in cadaver knees. Kinematic results are often reported using a Joint Coordinate System (JCS) introduced by Grood & Suntay in 1983. The JCS relies on bone landmarks in the knee which are removed when a TKR is performed. While it may be expedient to use the closest equivalents of the landmarks from the TKR to build the JCS (rather than the actual anatomic landmarks) doing so may introduce errors that could lead to misinterpretation of the kinematic results. Cadaver studies were performed on two posterior …
Children's Lead Poisoning In The Eastern United States: A Spatial Data Mining Approach, Thaddeus Grace
Children's Lead Poisoning In The Eastern United States: A Spatial Data Mining Approach, Thaddeus Grace
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The focus of this thesis is to determine whether an association rule mining appraoch could be used to uncover associations between socioeconomic variables and childhood lead poisoning in the eastern Unied States. The association rule analysis was able to discover three prominent variables that were linked with childhood lead toxicity. Counties with high rates of holder housing, high single female head of householders, and a low proportion of Hispanic residents were found to be associated with higher rates of childhood lead poisoning. Geographic information systems (GIS) was utilized to visually illustrate the spatial distribution of each of the three association …
Phase Iii Archaeological Excavations At The Woodlyn Site (22ds517): A Preliminary Report On Ams Dates And Associated Materials, Amanda Leigh Brock
Phase Iii Archaeological Excavations At The Woodlyn Site (22ds517): A Preliminary Report On Ams Dates And Associated Materials, Amanda Leigh Brock
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The University of Memphis conducted field school excavations at the Woodlyn archaeological site (22DS517) during the summers of 1997 and 1998. Seventeen units were excavated yielding a multitude of artifacts, data, and features. AMS dates wee obtained from radiocarbon samples collected during the excavations. To better understand the extent of the temporal occupation at Woodlyn and to further refine the age range and cultural markers of the Walls Phase, I examined the artifacts and features associated with the dated radiocarbon samples. During the mid-sixteenth century, Woodlyn was a town included in the polity known as Quizquiz based on the Hernando …
Shades Of Fukushima, Richard Scott Adams
Shades Of Fukushima, Richard Scott Adams
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An earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale occurred in the Tuhoku region of Japan on the island of Honshu on March 11, 2011. This earthquake caused major damage to the Fukushima Daiichi (number one) Power Plant. A subsequent tsunami occurred as a result of this quake, further complicating the efforts to control the nuclear meltdown already in progress in Fukushima. This piece reflects the cataclysmic series of events that occurred on this day in Fukushima, Japan. It was my aim to create music that was both powerful and bold. In doing so, the musical language that developed made use …
Positive Versus Negative Agents: The Effects Of Emotions On Learning, Carolyn Mcgregor Forsyth
Positive Versus Negative Agents: The Effects Of Emotions On Learning, Carolyn Mcgregor Forsyth
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The current study investigates the impact of affect, mood contagion, and linguistic alignment on learning during tutorial conversations between a human student and two artificial pedagogical agents. The study uses an Intelligent Tutoring System known as OperationARIES! to engage students in tutorial conversations with animated agents. In this investigation, 48 college students (N = 48) conversed with pedagogical agents as they displayed 3 different moods (i.e., positive, negative, and neutral) along with a control condition in a within-subjects design. Results indicate that the mood of the agent did not significantly impact student learning even though mood contagion did occur between …
The Psychometric Evaluation Of The Memphis Gambling Inventory: A Problem Gambling Brief Screen For Primary Care Settings, George B. Mitzner
The Psychometric Evaluation Of The Memphis Gambling Inventory: A Problem Gambling Brief Screen For Primary Care Settings, George B. Mitzner
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Central to a public health approach to gambling problems is early detection. Drawbacks of traditional screening efforts have reinforced the need for brief problem gambling screens particularly in time sensitive settings such as primary care. The only, existing primary care brief instrument is limited by its psychometric development and is not informed by contemporary gambling research. The Memphis Gambling Inventory (MGI) is a new problem gambling brief screen that assesses several dimensions of gambling behavior, cognition, motivation, and consequences. The current study evaluated the screening performance of the MGI's original 15-item pool. ROC analysis revealed a 3-item MGI that correctly …
Determining The Relationship Between Participation In The Arts And The Academic, Personal, And Social Growth Of Community College Students, William Wesley Rayfield Iii
Determining The Relationship Between Participation In The Arts And The Academic, Personal, And Social Growth Of Community College Students, William Wesley Rayfield Iii
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The purpose of this study is to answer the call of the National Endowment for the Arts (2011),and various other arts-related organizations, for extensive research on the ability of the fine and performing arts to improve the quality of life for those who participate in them. Guided by C. Robert Pace's theory of quality of student effort, this study was conducted to determine the relationship between community college student participation in arts-related courses and activities and their academic, personal, and social development The Community College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CCSEQ) was used to acquire the data analyzed herein The CCSEQ is …
Design Experiences On Single And Multi Radio Systems In Wireless Embedded Platforms, Somnath Mitra
Design Experiences On Single And Multi Radio Systems In Wireless Embedded Platforms, Somnath Mitra
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The progress of radio technology has made several flavors of radio available on the market.Wireless sensor network platform designers have used these radios to build a variety of platforms. Withnew applications and different types of radios on wireless sensing nodes, it is often hard to interconnectdifferent types of networks. Hence, often additional radios have to be integrated onto existingplatforms or new platforms have to be built. Additionally, the energy consumption of these nodes have to be optimized to meetlifetime requirements of years without recharging.In this thesis, we address two issues of single and multi radio platform designfor wireless sensor network …
The Hook: Stories, Jenny Miranda Lederer
The Hook: Stories, Jenny Miranda Lederer
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The nine pieces of short fiction in this collection feature a group ofcharacters in transition: some caught between the easy magic of youth and the often painful discovery of complexity, others between deliberate stasis and queasy action. Their decisions in these moments will prove pivotal, with ramifications that echo for the remainder of their lives. The settings of these stories range the length of the East Coast from New Hampshire to Florida, often visiting places where the border between the wild and the tame becomes blurred: a campground, a rural farmhouse, a stretch of moonlit beach with the boundless ocean …