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The Impact Of Emotional Stimuli On The False Memory Effect, Alison E. Finstad Jan 2007

The Impact Of Emotional Stimuli On The False Memory Effect, Alison E. Finstad

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The Applicability Of The Escape Theory Of Suicide To Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Erica R. Hoff Jan 2007

The Applicability Of The Escape Theory Of Suicide To Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Erica R. Hoff

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Social Support Among Nontraditional University Students, Angela Osborn Jan 2007

Social Support Among Nontraditional University Students, Angela Osborn

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Investigating The Sociometer Theory And Its Impact On Disordered Eating Behaviors Within Sororities, Kathy Lee Korell-Rach Jan 2007

Investigating The Sociometer Theory And Its Impact On Disordered Eating Behaviors Within Sororities, Kathy Lee Korell-Rach

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Performance Evaluation And Emissions Characterization Of Biojet Fuels Derived From Soybean Oil And Its Derivatives In A Gas Turbine, Prasad S. Chavan Jan 2007

Performance Evaluation And Emissions Characterization Of Biojet Fuels Derived From Soybean Oil And Its Derivatives In A Gas Turbine, Prasad S. Chavan

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The Effects Of Fuel-To-Oxygen Stoichiometry And Temperature On Coal Ash Fine-Fragmentation Mode Formation Mechanisms, Gregory George Fix Jan 2007

The Effects Of Fuel-To-Oxygen Stoichiometry And Temperature On Coal Ash Fine-Fragmentation Mode Formation Mechanisms, Gregory George Fix

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Awareness And Utilization Of Community Health-Related Resources And Events, Amanda L. Eickhoff Jan 2007

Awareness And Utilization Of Community Health-Related Resources And Events, Amanda L. Eickhoff

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Online Issues For Students Seeking Mentors, Rule A. Hiuallah-Messiah Jan 2007

Online Issues For Students Seeking Mentors, Rule A. Hiuallah-Messiah

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Alactate Vs Lactate Sprints : A Guide For Swim Coaches, Maviael Do Prado Sampaio Jan 2007

Alactate Vs Lactate Sprints : A Guide For Swim Coaches, Maviael Do Prado Sampaio

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Kaizening The Bobcat 435 Moving Line, Harish Kumar Shetty Jan 2007

Kaizening The Bobcat 435 Moving Line, Harish Kumar Shetty

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How College Basketball Coaches Advise Their Athletes To Use Imagery, Megan R. Kelling Jan 2007

How College Basketball Coaches Advise Their Athletes To Use Imagery, Megan R. Kelling

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A Comparative Analysis Of Scenario Based Training And Manuever Based Training In A Title 14 Cfr Part 141 Private Pilot Certification Course, Jered C. Lease Jan 2007

A Comparative Analysis Of Scenario Based Training And Manuever Based Training In A Title 14 Cfr Part 141 Private Pilot Certification Course, Jered C. Lease

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The Effects Of Audio And Audio-Visual Music On Exercise Perceptions And Work Output, Katrina R. Kleven Jan 2007

The Effects Of Audio And Audio-Visual Music On Exercise Perceptions And Work Output, Katrina R. Kleven

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The Effect Of Uniform Color On Athletes' Readiness For Competition And Perceptions Of Opponents' Attributes, Julie Lemaire Jan 2007

The Effect Of Uniform Color On Athletes' Readiness For Competition And Perceptions Of Opponents' Attributes, Julie Lemaire

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From Grassland To Woodland : A 42-Year Chronosequence Of Woody Plant Expansion In Mandan, Nd, Anna L. Springsteen Jan 2007

From Grassland To Woodland : A 42-Year Chronosequence Of Woody Plant Expansion In Mandan, Nd, Anna L. Springsteen

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Emotional And Psychophysiological Responses To Antismoking Media In College Students, Mark C. Goetz Jan 2007

Emotional And Psychophysiological Responses To Antismoking Media In College Students, Mark C. Goetz

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Performance Testing Of Mercury Oxidation Via Catalytic Barrier Filters, Jason A. Hrdlicka Jan 2007

Performance Testing Of Mercury Oxidation Via Catalytic Barrier Filters, Jason A. Hrdlicka

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Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis Of Event-Related Eeg Potentials Using Ensemble Of Classifier Data Fusion Techniques For Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Disease, Apostolos Topalis Dec 2006

Multiresolution Wavelet Analysis Of Event-Related Eeg Potentials Using Ensemble Of Classifier Data Fusion Techniques For Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Disease, Apostolos Topalis

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The recent advances and knowledge in medicine and nutrition have greatly improved our average life expectancy. An unfortunate consequence of this longer life span, however, is a dramatic increase in the number of individuals suffering from dementia, and more specifically, from Alzheimer's disease (AD). Furthermore, AD remains under-diagnosed and under-treated until its more severe stages due to lack of standard diagnostic tools available to community clinics. A search for biomarkers that will allow early diagnosis of the disease is therefore necessary to develop effective medical treatments. Such a biomarker should be non-invasive, simple to obtain, safe, inexpensive, accurate, and most …


Data Fusion Of Complementary Information From Parietal And Occipital Event Related Potentials For Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Disease, Nicholas Stepenosky Dec 2006

Data Fusion Of Complementary Information From Parietal And Occipital Event Related Potentials For Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Disease, Nicholas Stepenosky

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The number of the elderly population affected by Alzheimer's disease is rapidly rising. The need to find an accurate, inexpensive, and non-intrusive procedure that can be made available to community healthcare providers for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly urgent public health concern. Several recent studies have looked at analyzing electroencephalogram signals through the use of many signal processing techniques. While their methods show great promise, the final outcome of these studies has been largely inconclusive. The inherent difficulty of the problem may be the cause of this outcome, but most likely it is due to …


An Architecture For Intelligent Health Assessment Enabled Ieee 1451 Compliant Smart Sensors, Donald Albert Nickles Dec 2006

An Architecture For Intelligent Health Assessment Enabled Ieee 1451 Compliant Smart Sensors, Donald Albert Nickles

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As systems become increasingly complex and costly, potential failure mechanisms and indicators are numerous and difficult to identify, while the cost of loss is very expensive - human lives, replacement units, and impacts to national security. In order to ensure the safety and long-term reliability of vehicles, structures, and devices attention must be directed toward the assessment and management of system health. System health is the key component that links data, information, and knowledge to action. Integrated Systems Health Management (ISHM) doctrine calls for comprehensive real-time health assessment and management of systems where the distillation of raw data into information …


Assessing Perceived Marriage Education Needs And Interests Of Latino Individuals In Utah County, Utah, Iliana Snyder Dec 2006

Assessing Perceived Marriage Education Needs And Interests Of Latino Individuals In Utah County, Utah, Iliana Snyder

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This study utilized focus groups to assess the perceived needs and interests for marriage education among single and married Latino individuals residing in Utah County, Utah as well as the identification of common themes and differences for this population. Male and female groups at various points in the marital developmental life stage were studied including high school students (15-18 years of age), single never married young adults (19-30 years of age), committed (engaged or cohabiting) adults, married persons recently transitioning to parenting, and married people with children. The sample consisted of 10 groups, 5 female and 5 male. In addition, …


Multiscale Structure-Function Relations Of A Tendon, Lakiesha Nicole Williams Dec 2006

Multiscale Structure-Function Relations Of A Tendon, Lakiesha Nicole Williams

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In 1998, the United States National Committee on Biomechanics (USNCB) established an evolving discipline called Functional Tissue Engineering (FTE). In establishing this discipline, the goals of the USNCB were to advance FTE by increasing awareness among tissue engineers about the importance of restoring function when engineering tissue constructs. Another goal was to encourage tissue engineers to incorporate these functional criteria in the design, manufacturing and optimization of tissue engineered constructs. Based on this motivation, an investigation of the structure and mechanical properties of the rabbit patellar tendon will be executed, with the ultimate goal of creating a multiscale soft tissue …


Single-Step Treatment Of 2,4-Dinitrotoluene Via Zero-Valent Metal Reduction And Chemical Oxidation, J. Mathew Thomas Dec 2006

Single-Step Treatment Of 2,4-Dinitrotoluene Via Zero-Valent Metal Reduction And Chemical Oxidation, J. Mathew Thomas

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Many nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) are considered toxic and potential carcinogens. The purpose of this study was to develop an integrated reductive/oxidative process for treating NAC contaminated waters. The process consists of the combination of zero-valent manganese or iron and a hydroxyl radical based treatment technique. Corrosion promoters were added to the contaminated water to minimize passivation of the metallic species. Water contaminated with 2,4-dinitrotoluen (DNT) was treated with the integrated process using a recirculating batch reactor. It was demonstrated that addition of corrosion promoters to the contaminated water enhanced the rate of reaction of 2,4-DNT with zero-valent iron or manganese. …


Hyperspectral Dimensionality Reduction Via Sequential Parametric Projection Pursuits For Automated Invasive Species Target Recognition, Terrance Roshad West Dec 2006

Hyperspectral Dimensionality Reduction Via Sequential Parametric Projection Pursuits For Automated Invasive Species Target Recognition, Terrance Roshad West

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This thesis investigates the use of sequential parametric projection pursuits (SPPP) for hyperspectral dimensionality reduction and invasive species target recognition. The SPPP method is implemented in a top-down fashion, where hyperspectral bands are used to form an increasing number of smaller groups, with each group being projected onto a subspace of dimensionality one. Both supervised and unsupervised potential projections are investigated for their use in the SPPP method. Fisher?s linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is used as a potential supervised projection. Average, Gaussian-weighted average, and principal component analysis (PCA) are used as potential unsupervised projections. The Bhattacharyya distance is used as …


The Use Of Dietary Fat Supplementation On Growth, Reproduction And Performance Characteristics Of Replacement Beef Heifers, Alecsandro Rufino Dos Santos Dec 2006

The Use Of Dietary Fat Supplementation On Growth, Reproduction And Performance Characteristics Of Replacement Beef Heifers, Alecsandro Rufino Dos Santos

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The purpose of these studies was to evaluate the effects of a dietary fat supplementation on growth, reproduction and performance characteristics of replacement beef heifers reared in different management systems (pasture and dry lot conditions). The objectives were (1) to quantify changes in body composition traits and growth performance of replacement beef heifers fed different levels of fat in the supplemented diet,(2) to determine the reproductive performance of heifers supplemented with dietary fat in either a ryegrass pasture system or a dry lot system, and (3) to determine the value of real-time ultrasound technology (RTU) as an alternative technology to …


Establishment Of Blackberries And Detection And Management Of Raspberry Crown Borer, Edward Heard Dec 2006

Establishment Of Blackberries And Detection And Management Of Raspberry Crown Borer, Edward Heard

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Evaluations of tactics for detection and management of raspberry crown borer, RCB, Pennisettia marginata (Harris) on blackberries were performed in Mississippi from January 2005 - July 2006. Randomized split plots with infested blackberries and certified nursery stock of two recommended cultivars, thorny ?Chickasaw? and thornless ?Apache? were planted. Pest management tactics targeting RCB included drenches: chemical insecticide bifenthrin, recently registered for RCB management; experimental pesticide E2Y45; and entomopathogenic nematodes Steinernema feltiae. Insect pheromones (E,Z)3-13-octadecadien-1-ol and (E,Z)3-13-octadecadien-1-yl-acetate were evaluated as RCB lures. Effects of fungicides captan, pyraclostrobin + boscalid, lime-sulfur and insecticide acetamiprid on viability and infectivity of entomopathogenic nematode species, …


Measures Of Oxidation Of Soybean And Catfish Oils, John Michael Mcgillivray Dec 2006

Measures Of Oxidation Of Soybean And Catfish Oils, John Michael Mcgillivray

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Oils from soybeans and catfish by-products were extracted using hexane, propane, and supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO2). Free fatty acids (FFA), peroxide values (PV), anisidine values (AnV), total oxidation (TOTOX), induction point (IP), iodine values (IV), and 2-thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS) were all measured to analyze oxidation of these oils. The extraction yield of propane, hexane, and SCCO2 oils was 80.4, 94.5, and 90%, in respect to total lipid content. Oils extracted with SCCO2 were more oxidized than those extracted with propane and hexane; probably due to the higher temperature and longer extraction time. The IP correlated with AnV, IV, …


A Study Of The Perceptions Of Mississippi Legislators Regarding The Mission And Goals Of Mississippi Community And Junior Colleges, Samuel Lee Jones Dec 2006

A Study Of The Perceptions Of Mississippi Legislators Regarding The Mission And Goals Of Mississippi Community And Junior Colleges, Samuel Lee Jones

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This study examined the perceptions of the Mississippi legislature that served in the 2006 government session concerning community/junior college mission and goals. There were six research questions in the study pertaining to current and future goal statements. A discrepancy-type survey instrument was developed based on the Community College Goals Inventory developed by the Educational Testing Service and the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC). Respondents were asked to rate 40 goal statements in terms of how important the goal statement ?is,? which was current, and how important it ?should be,? which was future. The following goal areas were …


Effective Modeling Of Agricultural Practices Within Large-Scale Hydrologic And Water Quality Simulations, Zhijun Liu Dec 2006

Effective Modeling Of Agricultural Practices Within Large-Scale Hydrologic And Water Quality Simulations, Zhijun Liu

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The previously developed watershed hydrological and water quality model for St. Louis Bay watershed by Kieffer (2002) was refined and calibrated. The aspects of model development refinement included development of fertilization-related nutrient input parameters, evaluation of nutrient input methods, development of plant uptake-related nutrient input parameters, non-cropland simulation using PQUAL module, and recalibration of hydrology in Jourdan River. The related information of typical cropland management practice based on consultation from Mississippi State University Extention Service personnel was integrated into the watershed model. In addition, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) observed water quality data were analyzed to evaluate the …


Body Mass Index And Percent Body Fat As Determined By Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis In Children, 7-9 Years Of Age, Patrick Alan Grady Dec 2006

Body Mass Index And Percent Body Fat As Determined By Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis In Children, 7-9 Years Of Age, Patrick Alan Grady

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The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of overweight and report mean Body Mass Index (BMI) and percent body fat (%BF) in Black and non-Black children, 7-9 years of age. The study involved 172 students divided as follows: 56 (32.6%) Black females, 45 (26.2%) Black males, 34 (19.7%) non-Black females, and 37 (21.5%) non-Black males. Percent body fat (%BF) was determined by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). Body mass index was calculated as weight (kg)/height (m)². Black females had a statistically greater BMI (19.3 ± 4.8) and %BF (25.7 ± 10.6) than all other groups. Prevalence of at-riskor-overweight …