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Sensitivity Of Modeled Cretaceous Climate To Insolation Forcing Created By Varying Earth-Sun Orbital Relationships, Thomas J. Glancy Jr.

Open Access Dissertations

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Environment-Dependent Fatigue Crack Growth In Alloy 718, Dian Zheng

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Nonlinear Random Wave Theory And Non-Gaussian Structural Response, Dongsheng Zhao

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Aspects Of The Bioenergetics And Ecology Of Sand Lance On Georges Bank, Sharon Nicole Larimer

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Mathematical Model Of A Three-Phase Fluidized Fermentor With Cocurrent Upward Flow Of Gas And Liquid, Hagyoung Lee

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High-Temperature Dynamics Of Classical Spin Systems, Jian-Min Liu

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Interventions To Lessen Racist Prejudice And Discrimination Among College Students, Diane Maluso

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The Relationship Of Ptsd In Vietnam Veterans To Family Dysfunction As Mediated By Marital Functioning: A Structural Model, Catherine A. Mora

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Etiology, Pathogenesis And Epizootiology Of Hematopoietic Neoplasia In The Soft-Shell Clam, Mya Arenaria, Gregory Ernest Paquette

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The Bronte Sisters' Quarrel: A Social Discourse Within The Bronte Novels, Terryli Mcmillan Raine

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Family Background And Personality Factors Influencing Health-Related Attitudes And Behaviors Toward Medical Treatment, Virginia Ann Rockhill

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Seasonal Disinfection With Respect To Marine Waters, Dale Laura Saad

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Electric Field Effects On Wetting Of Solids By Ionic Surfactant And Electrolyte Solutions, Sanjay Wahal

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Infrared Spectral Measurement Of Space Shuttle Glow, Mark Ahmadjian

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Reliability Of Hysteretic Structures Under Seismic Excitation, Haris Mohammed Roufun Awal

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An Investigation Of The Photochemistry Of 6-Phenanthridinecarbonitrile, Donald Francis Sears Jr.

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Disruption Is The Word: Transgressive Poetics Of Spirituality In The Poetry Of G. M. Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, And Stevie Smith, Katherine Elaine Powell

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The Long-Range Transport Of Aerosol Particles Over The North Atlantic Ocean, William Grenville Ellis Jr.

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Abundance, Condition, Growth And Mortality Of Winter Flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus, Walbaum) Larvae In Narragansett Bay During Spring Of 1988, Einar Horleifsson

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Metacognitive Training Affects The Application Of Learning Strategies But Not Academic Performance, William Wilbur Latimer Iv

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1992 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials for 1992.

Judicial Deference To Nonlegal Decisionmakers: Imposing Simplistic Solutions On Problems Of Cognitive Complexity In Mental Disability Law, Donald N. Bersoff

SMU Law Review

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The Cognitive Control Of Leveling-Sharpening And Acceptance Of Interpersonal Violence In Adults, Bertram S. Gibbes

Open Access Dissertations

The cognitive performance of three groups of college students (N = 251, 135 males, 116 females) who differed in their attitudes toward accepting interpersonal violence were compared as they processed two leveling-sharpening measures used to assess their leveling-sharpening cognitive control. Two leveling-sharpening test stimuli were used, one aggressive and one nonaggressive. The first leveling-sharpening test was neutral in content while the second portrayed an interpersonal (inter-sex) aggressive scene. Subjects were administered the Burt (1980) scale of Acceptance of Interpersonal Violence and classified into three groups of either High Acceptors, Moderate Acceptors, or Rejectors of interpersonal violence. Using Santostefano's (1985, 1986, …

Relations Among Verbal Working Memory, Listening Comprehension, And Reading Skills, Joanna S. Futransky

Open Access Dissertations

Previous research suggests that verbal working memory deficits contribute to problems experienced in reading and in listening comprehension. The primary purpose of the present study was to explore the role of verbal working memory in listening comprehension for fifth-grade students. Additionally, the present research investigated the association between working memory and the two components of reading: decoding and comprehension. A third goal of the study was to investigate the power of listening comprehension, decoding ability-memory skills, and IQ to predict reading comprehension.

Data from 136 fifth-grade students with average to above average cognitive ability was analyzed for the study. Each …

Development Of A Prototype Pavement Management System For Municipal Maintained Roads And The Integration With A Geographic Information System, Olumide Adedamola Adeyinka

Open Access Master's Theses

A pavement management system (PMS) is a set of tools or methods that assist decision makers in finding optimum strategies for providing and maintaining pavements in a serviceable condition over a given period of time at the least cost. Without such a routine pavement maintenance program, roads require more frequent reconstruction, thereby costing the state and local governments additional dollars.

In this study, a prototype PMS for municipal maintained roads was developed for a typical township in Rhode Island, the Town of South Kingston. Based on the results of a questionnaire survey and comparative analysis, Micro PAVER was selected as …

Tourism Management In The Galapagos Islands: A Social Carrying Capacity Study, Claudia Anne Reinhart

Open Access Master's Theses

Social carrying capacity is crucial to the long term survival of a tourist destination. The purpose of this thesis is to help tourism managers in the Galapagos Islands understand the critical factors related to social carrying capacity in order to maximize the value of the resource. It includes: a literature review of social carrying capacity studies, a description of the Galapagos Islands, tourism, and a description of visitors and their levels of satisfaction based on two surveys.

Visitors to the Galápagos Islands are all very different, and the results of the surveys demonstrate the wide range of visitors. As was …

Moral Reasoning Related To Gender And Dilemma Content, Lisa Rocchio Giordano

Open Access Master's Theses

Women's and men's use of care and justice considerations in response to moral dilemmas was investigated. Participants were 63 men and 127 women ranging in age from 17 to 64. Each was presented with one of two dilemmas dealing with either abortion or drug use, as it affected either a daughter or a son, and asked to respond to the dilemma both in an open-ended format and in a Likert scale format. A Chi Square analysis was used to analyze the essay responses, which were categorized as primarily justice, primarily care, or both. The content of the dilemma was found …

The Seismic Stratigraphy, Crustal Structure, Volcanic And Sedimentary History Of The East Mariana And Pigafetta Basins Of The Western Pacific, Lewis Julius Abrams

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In the following investigations regional multichannel seismic reflection and sonobuoy refraction data have been used to identify a site where Leg 129 of the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) successfully drilled and recovered Jurassic material for the first time in the Pacific Ocean. Prior to drilling first-order stratigraphic relationships and crustal structure were determined. The sedimentary and volcanic history of the East Mariana Basin (EMB) and Pigafetta Basin (PB) were then inferred with emphasis on defining the extent (lateral as well as vertical) and type of deep sea volcanic provinces (sills/flows and or volcaniclastics) in this part of the western Pacific. …

Models Of Shame, Family Functioning, And Psychosocial Outcomes In A College Population, Sherri Nelson Fitts

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An empirical investigation of shame was conducted, using a structural equation modeling approach with a sample of 750 undergraduates. The general model being tested involved three sets of latent constructs: functioning as the independent variable, shame as the mediating variable, and five psychosocial outcomes as the dependent variables. Five models were generated, one per outcome variable. Three of the outcomes were maladaptive ones: substance use, depression, and suicide ideation. The remaining two, risk-taking propensity and achievement orientation, were more neutrally toned. It was hypothesized that family dysfunctioning would be directly related to shame; and in turn, shame would be directly …

Infared Spectral Measurement Of Space Shuttle Glow, Mark Ahmadjian

Open Access Dissertations

Infrared spectral measurements of the space shuttle glow were successfully conducted during the STS-39 space shuttle mission. Analysis indicates that NO, No⁺, OH, and CO are among the molecules associated with the infrared glow phenomenon. During orbiter thruster firings the glow intensities in the infrared are enhanced by factors of 1Ox to 1OOx with significant changes in spectral distribution.

These measurements were obtained with the Spacecraft Kinetic Infrared Test (SKIRT) payload which included a cryogenic infrared circular variable filter (CVF) spectrometer (0.6 μm to 5.4 μm) and a number of infrared, visible, and ultraviolet radiometers (0.2 μm to …