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Relative Invertebrate Availability In Nebraska's Conservation Reserve Management Access Program, Ronald J. Leathers

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The Conservation Reserve Management Access Program (CRP-MAP) is a joint effort of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and Pheasants Forever of Nebraska that seeks to address brood habitat needs of pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) and other grassland birds by light disking and interseeding legumes into portions of aging CRP fields. The program has two specific goals - increasing the total invertebrate availability as a food source for pheasant chicks and increasing the structural complexity of vegetation. This study compares invertebrate biomass and structural complexity of vegetation in treated (disked and interseeded with legumes) and idle portions of CRP-MAP fields to …

Modeling Sugarbeet Quality Variables From Satellite Images And Canopy Spectral Indices, Subodh Kulkarni

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Remote sensing was used to model crop quality from measurements of canopy spectra. Three indices of canopy characteristics, derived from satellite image data, were tested for relationship to whole-field sugarbeet quality. Quality was quantified as recoverable sucrose per ton of harvested sugarbeets. Quality data were extracted from the year 2002 Field Database of the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Co-operative, (SMBSC), Renville, Minnesota. Linear regression models utilizing canopy indices and changes in canopy indices over time were tested for relationship to sugarbeet quality for four classes of sugarbeets. Classes of sugarbeet tested represented fields planted to a mix of varieties resistant …

The Use Of Speech Disfluency As An Indicant Of Paradigm Development In Pharmacy's Academic Subdisciplines, Erin Renee Holmes

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This study compared speech disfluency rates within five subdisciplines of pharmacy to estimate their paradigm development, and identified alternative factors associated with differing rates. Rates were observed in randomly selected courses. Lecturers completed a modified version of the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation survey and a self-rated anxiety measure. Ten percent of recordings were randomly selected for analysis by two judges to determine inter-reliability. An ANCOVA was conducted on the frequency of lecture disfluencies, with the frequency of interview disfluencies serving as the covariate. The overall mean disfluency rate in lectures was 2.11 disfluencies/minute. Average dislfuency rates among the five …

Living With Life-Threatening Illness: An Inquiry Into Children's Experience Of Cancer, Kristy Novinski

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Previous studies concerning children living with illness have been limited by (a) a narrow focus on the child's cognitive development, (b) reliance on sources outside of the child's experience, (c) reliance on methods based on the language and quantitative modes of measuring used by adults rather than the experience of the child, (d) models that emphasize methods of control in coping, and (e) a tendency to pathologize the responses of the child.

In contrast, the current study involved speaking directly with school-aged children living with a diagnosis of cancer. The qualitative method developed for this study involved a two-fold approach, …

How Do Undergraduate Mathematics Faculty Learn To Teach Online?, Margaret Mcdonough Pankowski

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This study investigated the training that faculty receive to teach undergraduate mathematics courses online and the effectiveness of that training. An online survey was distributed to 64 faculty who taught undergraduate mathematics courses online. In responding to the survey, faculty supplied information about the duration, topics, and types of training they received both before and after beginning to teach online, about their use of best practices for online education, and about their attitudes toward online education. Subsequent to completion of the survey, four focus group interviews were conducted with a total of 14 of the survey respondents. During focus group …

Factors Effecting Uptake And Visualization Of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Particles By Macrophages: Relevance For Use In Mri Plaque Imaging, Walter John Rogers

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Cardiovascular disease kills nearly 1 million Americans each year. While treatment at all levels has made significant advances over the past 3 decades, diagnosis is still limited to structural or hemodynamic changes associated with advanced disease. More than 60% of myocardial infarctions (MI) result from the rupture and associated acute thrombosis of atherosclerotic plaque that reduce lumen size by less that 50%. Ultra small superparamagnetic iron oxide particles (USPIO) have recently been proposed as a macrophage targeted magnetic resonance contrast agent. The goal of the present study was to determine if, and the extent to which, molecules known to alter …

Socratic Encounters: Plato's Alcibiades, Andre Archie

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The aim of this dissertation is to situate our reading of the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades Major among both ancient and modern readings of the dialogue. Since the nineteenth century the issue of authenticity has preoccupied most modern commentators of the dialogue, but from all reasonable evidence, commentators from the ancient world had no such qualms about attributing the authorship of Alcibiades Major to Plato. Our reading of Alcibiades Major is in line with modern commentators who take both the dialogue's dramatic features and educative value seriously, while not ignoring that in some quarters Alcibiades Major's authorship is still in dispute. …

Risk Based Evaluation Of Seismic Damage And Functionality Of Highway Bridges And Systems In Lafayette County, Mississippi / By Jaisimha Siruguri, Jaisimha Siruguri

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Stochastic Modeling Of Nonlinear Epidemiology, Sankar Bokka

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Multivariate Slash And Skew-Slash Distributions / By Fei Tan, Fei Tan

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Intersecting Set Systems, Jaromy Scott Kuhl

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Time-Resolved, Low-Dimensional Estimation Of Open Cavity Flow, Nathan E. Murray

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A Comparison Of Lowess Normalization Methods On Microarray Data, Yuanyuan Ding

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An Impedance Tube Investigation Of Thermoacoustics With A Multi-Phase Working Fluid, Daniel C. Brown

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Application Of Inductive Inference To Models With Additive Exponential Terms, Chung Yong Chan

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Separate Schools Shall Be Maintained For The White And Colored Races : The Progression Of Historically Black Colleges And Universities In Mississippi, Kianca Latrelle Guyton

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Theoretical Model For Chromatography With Dynamically-Related Stationary Phases / By Yuan Xiong, Yuan Xiong

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Application Of Pressure Sensitive Paint To Evaluate Loads On Jet Blast Deflectors / By Kiran K. Konde, Kiran K. Konde

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Electronic Cooling Of A Generic Transmitter, Jaideep Bangal

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A Fractal Analysis Of Estrogen, Estrogen-Receptor Interactions And Estrogen Metabolism In Two Related Species Of Catfish, Harshala D. Butala

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Statistically Designed Spheronization And Scale-Up Of Ibuprofen Microparticulates Using The Rotor Disk Fluid-Bed Technology: Coating For Prolonged Release And Hard Gelatin Encapsulation Of Microparticulates, Beatrice Chukwumezie

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The aim was to develop uncoated and coated ibuprofen microparticulates in a one-step fluid-bed machine with rotor-disk insert, for immediate and prolonged drug delivery. Feasibilty studies using ibuprofen: Avicel (RC-581; 50:50), sodium lauryl sulfate (1%) as surfactant and water as binder in FLM-15 Vector Flo-coater with 12" stainless-steel and waffle-disk inserts showed that amount of binder, plate type and the presence of surfactant affected most of spheroid characteristics. These variables were used in a 2x2x3 full factorial (replicated) experiment. Blocking was used to study batch-to-batch reproducibility of the process and product variables. Our results confirmed that the binder amount, plate-type …

In-Situ Characterization Of Subgrade Using Falling Weight Deflectometer, Manil Bajracharya

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Experimental Characterization Of Modified And Thin Film Piezoceramic Sensors, Shantharam V. Dravida

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Building Extraction Using Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition With Feature Detecting Structures, Patrick M. Jackson

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Phytotoxins From The Leaves Of Ruta Graveolens, Amber L. Hale

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Bifurcation Analysis Of Hiv-1 Dynamics In Vivo, Revanth Babu Mutyala

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Enrichments Of Microbial Consortia, Mathematical Modeling And Statistical Analysis For Methane Production Form Acetate, Sulabh Madhusudan Koolwal

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Implementation Of The Asymptotic Boundary Conditions In The Fdtd Method/ By Andrew E. Simon, Andrew E. Simon

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The Relationship Of Home Environment And Kindergarten Readiness., Nancye C. Williams

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between home environment and school readiness of children entering kindergarten in a rural East Tennessee county. Family and home environment variables included family income, family structure, parents' education, participation in literacy activities, availability of home learning tools, and amount of children's television viewing. A self-reported parent survey was used to gather information about the family environment; the Brigance K Screen was used to determine entering kindergartner's readiness for school. Three hundred and thirty eight children and parents participated.

An initial analysis of data incorporated simple descriptive statistics in the form …

The Effects Of Looping On The Academic Achievement Of Elementary School Students., Vada S. Bogart

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The purpose of this study was to compare the academic achievement of students in looping programs from school systems in East Tennessee to their peers in traditional one-year instructional programs. Looping is defined as any program design that perpetuates a cohesive student group with the same teacher for more than one year. The study included all students who had completed fourth grade in 2001 at every school in East Tennessee that implemented a third/fourth grade looping design. Student scores reported for 1999, 2000, and 2001 on the TerraNova Standardized Achievement Test were obtained from individual student records. Comparisons were made …