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Processing Times, Usu Extension

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Vegetable Processing Times

Relaciones Latinas De Parejas Fuertes, Linda Skogrand

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Relaciones Latinas de Parejas Fuertes

Sewing Machine: Threading The Bernina 1008 Machine, Kate Black

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Before beginning a sewing project, it is essential to become familiar with the process of threading and using the sewing machine.

Sewing Machine: Threading The Bernina B330 Machine, Kate Black

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Before beginning a sewing project, it is essential to become familiar with the process of threading and using the sewing machine.

Sewing Technique: Attaching Garment Fasteners, Kate Black

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Hook and eyes and snaps are used in clothing construction as a fastener to close a garment. There are several types of hooks and eyes and snaps each designed to server a particular purpose.

Sewing Technique: Backstitch (Hand), Sandra Bradshaw

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A hand sewn backstitch is used to secure a seam or hem. This technique provides a clean, pleasing line and secure stitch if the following steps are completed correctly.

Sewing Technique: Basting Stitch, Shanna Haws

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The purpose of a basting stitch is to secure fabric in place while constructing a garment. This stitch is a temporary stitch that is to be removed after the garment is complete.

Sewing Technique: Blind Machine Hem, Shanna Haws

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A hem is defined as a finishing technique for a garment (pants, skirts, etc). Three basic forms of hems can be used in the process of constructing garments: turned-up edge, faced edge, and enclosed edge.

Sewing Technique: Buttons, Sandra Bradshaw

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There are two kinds of buttons that are normally used, a sew-through button and a shank button. Buttons can be used for garment closure and as a decorative touch to a garment.

Sewing Technique: Invisible Zipper, Sandra Bradshaw

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Determine the needed zipper length for the project. Zippers come in a variety of sizes

Sewing Technique: Knife Pleats, Sandra Bradshaw

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Knife pleats are used as decorative finishes and add fullness to a garment. The pleats are folded much like an accordion with equal space from top to bottom; this gives a clean finish, texture and space for the garment to move.

Sewing Technique: French Seam, Sarah Geer

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The French seam is a self-enclosed seam that is ideal for visible seams and seams in unlined jackets.

Fall 2000

University of Richmond Magazine

No abstract provided.

Multicast Services For Multimedia Collaborative Applications, Emad Eldin Mohamed Mohamed

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

This work aims at providing multicast services for multimedia collaborative applications over large inter-networks such as the Internet. Multimedia collaborative applications are typically of small group size, slow group membership dynamics, and awareness of participants' identities and locations. Moreover, they usually consist of several components such as audio, video, shared whiteboard, and single user application sharing engines that collectively help make the collaboration session successful. Each of these components has its demands from the communication layer that may differ from one component to another. This dissertation identifies the overall characteristics of multimedia collaborative applications and their individual components. It also …

An Architectural Framework For Performance Analysis: Supporting The Design, Configuration, And Control Of Dis /Hla Simulations, David B. Cavitt

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Technology advances are providing greater capabilities for most distributed computing environments. However, the advances in capabilities are paralleled by progressively increasing amounts of system complexity. In many instances, this complexity can lead to a lack of understanding regarding bottlenecks in run-time performance of distributed applications. This is especially true in the domain of distributed simulations where a myriad of enabling technologies are used as building blocks to provide large-scale, geographically disperse, dynamic virtual worlds. Persons responsible for the design, configuration, and control of distributed simulations need to understand the impact of decisions made regarding the allocation and use of the …

Extending Traditional Static Analysis Techniques To Support Development, Testing And Maintenance Of Component-Based Solutions, Robert David Cherinka

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Traditional static code analysis encompasses a mature set of techniques for helping understand and optimize programs, such as dead code elimination, program slicing, and partial evaluation (code specialization). It is well understood that compared to other program analysis techniques (e.g., dynamic analysis), static analysis techniques do a reasonable job for the cost associated with implementing them. Industry and government are moving away from more ‘traditional’ development approaches towards component-based approaches as ‘the norm.’ Component-based applications most often comprise a collection of distributed object-oriented components such as forms, code snippets, reports, modules, databases, objects, containers, and the like. These components are …

Effects Of Ventilation On Human Thermal Comfort In Rooms, Ahmed F. Alfahaid

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Nowadays, the majority of people spend up to 90% of their time indoors; as a result, the maintenance of optimal indoor climate conditions has become important for their overall health and comfort. The main goal of this study is to predict numerically the flow and temperature patterns and the human thermal comfort conditions in an indoor environment using displacement ventilation.

A Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code has been used to analyze thermal comfort conditions for a fullscale ventilated room. Unstructured grids have been used to discretize the numerical domain. Before undertaking a detailed investigation, the code was validated by comparing …

Community Social Disorganization Theory Applied To Adolescent Academic Achievement, Spencer Ross Baker

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

Over the years, the public education system has been transformed by outside political and societal forces to provide an equal opportunity for all students. Investigations of the public education system were not consistent and yielded divergent results on how to improve adolescent academic achievement. These divergent results were caused by different operationalizations of variables, data analytical procedures that possibly provided biased parameter estimates, and a failure to use a comprehensive theory. Although these results were inconsistent, the latest transformation of the public education system currently involves holding schools, administrators, parents, and students accountable for learning.

The measurement of success in …

Cytotoxic T Cell Response To Influenza Vaccination In Older Adults, Caroline R. Letter

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

Influenza infections result in activation of cellular and humoral immune responses, leading to stimulation of cytotoxic T cells (CTL) and helper T cells with subsequent viral clearance.

By using an assay of granzyme B activity, the in vivo cellular-mediated immune response of old adults was found to be significantly decreased in comparison to young adults. The effect of aging on the CTL response was further investigated via enzyme-linked immunospot technique. A significant increase in number of virus-specific T cells occurred in older adults after vaccination, although the magnitude of the CTL response decreased in comparison to young adults. These data …

Transcriptional Regulation Of Chicken Apolipoprotein A-I Gene Expression, Wen Lin Kumfert

Theses and Dissertations in Biomedical Sciences

Deregulation of a set of critical cellular genes has long been speculated as a cause of the oncogenic transformation induced by v-Jun oncoprotein. In the past several years, extensive efforts have been made to identify such genes. Several target genes have been identified that are specifically associated with the v-Jun induced transformation phenotype in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF).

We have undertaken the objective to identify and characterize the genes that become deregulated in response to, or as a consequence of, Jun-induced transformation. By exploiting the difference in oncogenic potential between v-Jun and c-Jun in CEF, the chicken apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) …

Evaluation Of Fish Scale Chemistry For Determining Habitat Associations, Brian Kenneth Wells

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

This is the first work examining the utility of scale chemistry for determining natal origins and habitat associations. I quantified a relationship of scale chemistry to water chemistry, quantified geographic variation in scale chemistry, and evaluated stability of scale chemistry through maturation. Scale chemistry accurately reflected trace element composition of the water in which fish had lived. Juvenile spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) were held in four concentrations of Sr, Cd, and Ba maintained at either 20°C or 25°C, for 42 days. Strontium:Ca, Cd:Ca, and Ba:Ca levels in scales were linearly related to environmental concentrations while temperature had no effect. …

Telomerase Activity In Human Preimplantation Embryos, Diane Lynne Wright

Theses and Dissertations in Biomedical Sciences

Telomerase, a ribonucleoprotein, has been described as an essential component of highly proliferative cells, which stabilizes the telomeres and avoids cellular senescence. Telomerase has been identified in various embryonic cell stages, hematopoietic cells, and in >85% of tumor tissue biopsies analyzed. The ability to measure the potential to proliferate successfully could provide an objective measure of an embryo's quality. The objectives of this study were to modify the telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) assay system for increased sensitivity to allow detection of telomerase activity in the single cell of an oocyte and embryo, obtain telomerase activity levels for the oocyte …

Turfgrass Care – Northern Utah Cool Season Grasses, Usu Extension

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Turfgrass adds beauty to most landscapes, helps cool the environment, and gives people a place to play, sit and walk barefoot. Maintaining a lawn properly helps keep it beautiful for years to come, and reduces the likelihood of problems. A few simple practices can make lawn care easier and more satisfying.

Turfgrass Weed Control, Usu Extension

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Weeds in the lawn are one of the more noticeable pests of the landscape. They not only detract from the aesthetic value of the home, but also waste water and fertilizer, harbor insects, and reduce the overall health of the lawn. There are a number of cultural and mechanical practices to reduce weed populations. In severe and difficult cases, herbicides can be used to control some weeds.

Nutrients Influence Palatability, Usu Extension

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Animals form preferences for foods with high levels of energy and protein especially if they release quickly during digestion.

Family Structure As A Primary Agent Of Socialization And The Relationship Between Behavior Attitude And Peers, Karen M. Foote

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Cultural Values And Happiness, Timothy B. Smith

Faculty Publications

Csikszentmihalyi (1999) has reminded us that social scientists cannot shrink from challenging the validity of our most cherished values, including the fundamental nature of happiness. He cites research affirming that material wealth does not correlate with happiness and then presents data correlating happiness with the experience of flow. However, in making this leap Csikszentmihalyi confuses correlation with causation. Because losing oneself in a project, relationship, or dream is followed by a very positive condition does not mean that the experience itself caused happiness. It is equally likely that losing one self is the causative factor. In looking at his data …

Identification And Characterization Of A Bacteriophage Of Borrelia Burgdorferi, Christian H. Eggers

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Web - 2000, University Of Richmond

The Web

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Preventing Prrs From Establishing In Utah Swine, Clell V. Bagley

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Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is considered the most important disease affecting swine operations in North America and internationally. There has been no evidence of cross-infection to humans since discovery of PRRS in the U.S. in 1987.