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Regulation Of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Atpase (Serca2) Gene Expression In Left Ventricular Hypertrophy And Heart Failure, Ming Qi

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V, D And J Gene Rearrangements On The Unexpressed Igh Allele In Rabbit B Cells, Chainarong Tunyaplin

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Characterization Of Central Serotonergic Alterations In Male Rats Following Prenatal Exposure To Fluoxetine, Theresa M. Cabrera

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Effect Of Neurotrophic Factors On Cholinergic Neurons In The Septo-Hippocampal Pathway Of Normal And Af64a Treated Rats, Christopher Andrew Willson

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The Effect Of Estrogen In A Murine Model Of Peritoneal Adhesion Formation, Michelle Rene Frazier-Jessen

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Comparative Pharmacologic Studies On Synthetic And Recombinant Inhibitors Of Thrombin, Demetra D. Callas

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Pharmacologic Studies On Synthetic Analogues Of Heparin With Selective Affinity To Endogenous Serine Protease Inhibitors, Walter P. Jeske

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Assessing The Vision Disabled Older Child With Specific Subtests Of The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery For Older Children, Paul Taviani

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William Faulkner: Sacrifice And Chivalry In Southern Culture, Lenore Daniels

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The Leadership Role Of The Principal In Integrating Computers In The Elementary School Instructional Program, Ann Smith Ganier Jackson

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The Old English Rogationtide Corpus: A Literary History, Gordon Sellers

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Children's Assignment Of Intentionality To People, Animals, Plants, And Objects: Challenges To Theory Of Mind And Animism, Elizabeth Nebeker Szendre

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Computer-Assisted Instruction In A College Setting: Survey Of Student Demographic And Motivational Characteristics, Maureen A. Culleeney

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Susa Young Gates 1856-1933: Educator, Suffragist, Mormon, Patricia A. Lynott

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The Synthesis Of Azure B Derivatives: Potential Pro-Drugs For Photodynamic Therapy, Carla M. Edwards

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The Image Of God As The Foundation Of A Right To Health Care: A Comparison Of Selected Papal And U.S. Texts, 1979-1993, Timothy L. Doherty

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The Interactive Effects Of Crime Prototype And Criminal Stereotype On Juridical Decisions, Joseph W. Filkins

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A Descriptive And Exploratory Case Study Of The Evolution Of Intercollegiate Athletics And Education At Loyola University Chicago: 1922-1994, Thomas G. Hitcho

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Lessons In Leadership: Julius Caesar, Niccolo Machiavelli, And Napoleon Bonaparte, Kelly Dale Baird

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Feminism And The Evolutionary Sciences: A Reexamination Of Human Nature, Laurette T. Liesen

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The Empirical Development Of A Curriculum On Psalms Utilizing A Modified Form-Critical Approach, Ted Ewing

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Problem. The purpose of this study was to empirically develop a curriculum on the book of Psalms for readers of the English text that would bridge historical, theological, cultural, and linguistic distance, as well as overcome literary challenges associated with Hebrew poetry including figures of speech, parallelism, and psalm forms.

Method. The instructional product development methodology employed in this study was based on the work of Baker and Schutz (1971) and Naden (1993). The need for the product was established through a literature review, the specific learners were described, behavioral objectives were constructed, an identical pre-test and post-test were prepared, …

A Study Of Active Participation Instructional Strategies Increasing Student's Higher Order Thinking Skills, Scottie J. Griffin

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Toward A Comprehensive Model Of Parent-Teen Socialization: The Antecedents And Consequents Of Parent-Teen Interaction, Gregory L. Sanders

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Multiple Personality Disorder And Major Depression: A Comparative Study, Mary L. Wassink

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Removal Of Vocs From Air By Absorption And Stripping In Hollow Fiber Devices, Tarun K. Poddar

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Large volumes of exhaust air streams contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as toluene, xylene, acetone etc. are discharged into the atmosphere by various industrial facilities. Common technologies for VOC emission abatement e.g., activated carbon adsorption, absorption in a liquid, incineration and catalytic oxidation, have many strengths as well as considerable limitations. In this study, a regenerative absorption-based removal of VOCs from N₂ in an inert, nonvolatile, organic liquid flowing in compact hollow fiber devices has been developed. The process eliminates flooding, loading and entrainment encountered in conventional absorption devices.

Contaminated air/N₂ stream was fed through the …

A Grounded Theory In The Development Of The Tantric Proposition In Leadership Education, Marsha Wislocki Goin

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The advancement of a new theory in the field of leadership education directed the focus of this study. A new paradigm directed toward an inclusive leadership model was advanced and the findings integrated, resulting in the development of a model reflecting four dimensions of leadership theory: (1) transformational, (2) transactional, (3) charismatic, and (4) intuitional.

These four dimensions, supported within a quadrilateral design and incorporating an Eastern philosophical motif represented as a mandala, were then interfaced with the four dimensions of tantric philosophy: (1) spiritual, (2) emotional, (3) intellectual, and (4) sensing, resulting in a tantric mandala of leadership design. …

Visual Pattern Recognition Using Neural Networks, Jenlong Moh

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Neural networks have been widely studied in a number of fields, such as neural architectures, neurobiology, statistics of neural network and pattern classification. In the field of pattern classification, neural network models are applied on numerous applications, for instance, character recognition, speech recognition, and object recognition. Among these, character recognition is commonly used to illustrate the feature and classification characteristics of neural networks.

In this dissertation, the theoretical foundations of artificial neural networks are first reviewed and existing neural models are studied. The Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) model is improved to achieve more reasonable classification results. Experiments in applying the …

Toward A Biocritical Sociology, John Neuhaus

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This dissertation is a critical discourse with three prominent trends in contemporary sociology. It is a critique of Emile Durkheim's admonition that sociological analysis, by definition, requires the exclusion of biological and psychological data. It shows, in contrast, that the exclusion of biosocial data removes vast sources of information which are useful and necessary in any interpretation of human behavior. This work also demonstrates that a biosocial perspective facilitates the development of a transcultural theory of human needs, which, if utilized, would enable sociologists to clarify a number of unproductive disciplinary conflicts concerning the definition and extent of social problems. …

Lost In The Fifties: A Study Of Collected Memories, Janelle L. Wilson

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This is a study of ordinary people's recollections of the decade of the nineteen fifties. The theoretical concepts of collective memory and collected memories guide design and analysis. Unstructured interviews with 33 individuals who grew up in America in that decade were conducted. The snowball method identified potential informants. The data from these interviews, combined with secondary sources on that time period, served to reconstruct this decade. A number of themes emerged from the data; the decade was seen: as an apolitical time, as fun and innocent, as fearful with respect to atomic weaponry and Communists, as problematic for race …

The Song Of Lies: A Collection Of Poems, James Scannell Mccormick

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This creative dissertation is a book-length manuscript of poems. What holds up, what holds together, the collection is, fundamentally, a narrow examination of the interrelationship between the poetic speakers' physical and psychological landscapes, that is, how various psychological states (love, grief, fear) shape a speaker's perceptions of, and reactions to, the world. This psychological anatomizing and taxonomizing takes place in four stages, arranged as parts in the manuscript.

The first part, with its emphasis on the contrast between the "objective" (real or external) and the "subjective" (perceived or internal) worlds, establishes the speakers' essential inability to reconcile what they see …