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Integration Of Remote Sensing And Gis To Evaluate Change In The Mississippi Coast And Mississippi Sound, Erika C. Cohen Jan 2003

Integration Of Remote Sensing And Gis To Evaluate Change In The Mississippi Coast And Mississippi Sound, Erika C. Cohen

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Principles Of Chemical Reactivity On The Diels-Alder Reaction In Ionic Liquids And Lewis Acid Catalysis Using Large-Scale Computations, Orlando Acevedo Jan 2003

Principles Of Chemical Reactivity On The Diels-Alder Reaction In Ionic Liquids And Lewis Acid Catalysis Using Large-Scale Computations, Orlando Acevedo

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My Ph.D. dissertation describes three different external influences on pericyclic reactions: (1) ionic liquids, (2) Lewis acids and (3) bis(oxazoline)-Cu(II) complexes. (1) Ionic liquids deliver enhanced rates and endo/exo selectivities on the Diels-Alder reaction. The goal is to establish a firm understanding of the molecular interactions that give rise to the observed rate and selectivity enhancements. In order to accomplish our goal, we have used density functional theory methodology, specifically the Becke three parameter with Lee, Yang and Parr corrections at the 6-31G(d), to describe short-range effects, and have created new force field parameters using CHARMM to allow faster classical …


Factors Effecting Uptake And Visualization Of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Particles By Macrophages: Relevance For Use In Mri Plaque Imaging, Walter John Rogers Jan 2003

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 …


Health Practices Of Homeless Women, Margaret Chaney Wilson Jan 2003

Health Practices Of Homeless Women, Margaret Chaney Wilson

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Homeless women and female-headed families represent the fastest growing subgroups of homeless individuals. To expand the body of knowledge and provide further insight into the complex area of homelessness and health, health practices of homeless women were investigated using a cross-sectional, descriptive, and non-experimental design using Pender's Health Promotion Model as the theoretical framework. Homeless women (N=137) were recruited from five shelters in northeastern Indiana. Homeless women in this study were found to be highly educated, mostly unemployed, and primarily single. A greater number of African Americans than represented in the local population were found to be shelter residents. Health …


Relative Invertebrate Availability In Nebraska's Conservation Reserve Management Access Program, Ronald J. Leathers Jan 2003

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 Jan 2003

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 …


Natural Products As Inhibitors Of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 (Hif-1), Tyler W. Hodges Jan 2003

Natural Products As Inhibitors Of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 (Hif-1), Tyler W. Hodges

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Risk Based Evaluation Of Seismic Damage And Functionality Of Highway Bridges And Systems In Lafayette County, Mississippi / By Jaisimha Siruguri, Jaisimha Siruguri Jan 2003

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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Archaic Effigy Beads : A New Look At Some Old Beads, Jessica F. Crawford Jan 2003

Archaic Effigy Beads : A New Look At Some Old Beads, Jessica F. Crawford

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The Well-Being Of Children As Viewed Through Their Conceptions Of Death, Jennifer Kampmann Jan 2003

The Well-Being Of Children As Viewed Through Their Conceptions Of Death, Jennifer Kampmann

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An explorative study was conducted to try and understand how young children’s emerging death concepts form including, (a) what family demographics and child factors contributed to family well-being, (b) did family well-being influence children’s social competence, and (c) did family well-being and children’s social competence influence children’s death conceptions. Although the subject of death contains many unique characteristics, it is not easily separated from other aspects of life; death is inseparable from the whole human experience (DeSpelder & Strickland, 2002). It was the assumption of this paper that children develop their conceptions of death based on the appreciation they hold …


Southern Collegiate Rugby : Examining A Masculine Space / By William Kyle Rote, Kyle Rote Jan 2003

Southern Collegiate Rugby : Examining A Masculine Space / By William Kyle Rote, Kyle Rote

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Kin Recognition In Captive Wild Turkeys (Meleagris Gallopavo) / By Leigh Ben Truong, Leigh Ben Truong Jan 2003

Kin Recognition In Captive Wild Turkeys (Meleagris Gallopavo) / By Leigh Ben Truong, Leigh Ben Truong

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An Attempt At Balance : Staging Guare's The House Of Blue Leaves, Richard J. Albert Jan 2003

An Attempt At Balance : Staging Guare's The House Of Blue Leaves, Richard J. Albert

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College Students' Attributions Of Rape, Tara Louise Peeples Jan 2003

College Students' Attributions Of Rape, Tara Louise Peeples

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Stochastic Modeling Of Nonlinear Epidemiology, Sankar Bokka Jan 2003

Stochastic Modeling Of Nonlinear Epidemiology, Sankar Bokka

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The Electrodeposition Of Cobalt-Aluminum Alloys From A Room-Temperature Chloroaluminate Molten Salt, Zhaoxia Liu Jan 2003

The Electrodeposition Of Cobalt-Aluminum Alloys From A Room-Temperature Chloroaluminate Molten Salt, Zhaoxia Liu

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Pheromonal Mediation Of Sex Change In The Bridled Goby, Coryphopterus Glaucofraenum, A Protogynously Hermaphroditic Reef Fish, Kristen Erica Marsh Jan 2003

Pheromonal Mediation Of Sex Change In The Bridled Goby, Coryphopterus Glaucofraenum, A Protogynously Hermaphroditic Reef Fish, Kristen Erica Marsh

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Depositional Systems Tracts And Associated Depositional Environments Within The Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Mooringsport Formation, Waveland Field, Hancock County, Mississippi, Michael David Miner Jan 2003

Depositional Systems Tracts And Associated Depositional Environments Within The Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Mooringsport Formation, Waveland Field, Hancock County, Mississippi, Michael David Miner

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Interactive Computational Tools For Simulating Linear Dynamic Response And Nonlinear Quasi-Static Damage In Composite Structures / By Tezeswi P. Tadepalli, Tezeswi P. Tadepalli Jan 2003

Interactive Computational Tools For Simulating Linear Dynamic Response And Nonlinear Quasi-Static Damage In Composite Structures / By Tezeswi P. Tadepalli, Tezeswi P. Tadepalli

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The Development Of Criteria For The Selection Of Wetland Restoration Sites In The Yazoo Backwater Area, Mississippi, Angela A. Davis Jan 2003

The Development Of Criteria For The Selection Of Wetland Restoration Sites In The Yazoo Backwater Area, Mississippi, Angela A. Davis

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A Day Long To Be Remembered : The Battle Of Champion Hill And The Fall Of Vicksburg / By William Brian Risher, William Brian Risher Jan 2003

A Day Long To Be Remembered : The Battle Of Champion Hill And The Fall Of Vicksburg / By William Brian Risher, William Brian Risher

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Quality Control In Microarrays / By Neelima Rungta, Neelima Rungta Jan 2003

Quality Control In Microarrays / By Neelima Rungta, Neelima Rungta

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Multivariate Slash And Skew-Slash Distributions / By Fei Tan, Fei Tan Jan 2003

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

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Graphical Class Browsing And Execution Environment / By Pallavi Tadepalli, Pallavi Tadepalli Jan 2003

Graphical Class Browsing And Execution Environment / By Pallavi Tadepalli, Pallavi Tadepalli

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Victorian Governesses And The Deconstruction Of The Ideal Of Ladyhood / By Sommer M. Sneed, Sommer M. Sneed Jan 2003

Victorian Governesses And The Deconstruction Of The Ideal Of Ladyhood / By Sommer M. Sneed, Sommer M. Sneed

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Phytochemical And Biological Investigation Of Zanthoxylum Monophyllum (Lam) P. Wilson (Rutaceae), Laura C. Johansmann Jan 2003

Phytochemical And Biological Investigation Of Zanthoxylum Monophyllum (Lam) P. Wilson (Rutaceae), Laura C. Johansmann

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Children's Peer Status And Recognition Of Facial Expressions Of Emotion, Leigh Anne Faul Jan 2003

Children's Peer Status And Recognition Of Facial Expressions Of Emotion, Leigh Anne Faul

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Common Problems Of Access To Records : Comparative Analysis And Mississippi Case Study, Scarlet Lawrence Jan 2003

Common Problems Of Access To Records : Comparative Analysis And Mississippi Case Study, Scarlet Lawrence

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Investigation Of Interaction Of Gas Hydrates With Sediments, Viren Kumar Jan 2003

Investigation Of Interaction Of Gas Hydrates With Sediments, Viren Kumar

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Rolling Down Like Thunder : Will Davis Campbell And Wendell Berry Call For The Redefinition And Redemption Of The World, Sharron Eve Sarthou Jan 2003

Rolling Down Like Thunder : Will Davis Campbell And Wendell Berry Call For The Redefinition And Redemption Of The World, Sharron Eve Sarthou

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