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Marital Instability In East Asian Societies: A Comparative Study Of China, Taiwan, And South Korea, Susan Lynne Rich Dec 2008

Marital Instability In East Asian Societies: A Comparative Study Of China, Taiwan, And South Korea, Susan Lynne Rich

Theses and Dissertations

The rising trend in marital instability and divorce is a topic of discussion nearly world-wide. While divorce affects considerably fewer people in non-Western societies, its rising trend and impact are quite alarming. Given the well established findings in the West, it is useful to study divorce and marital instability in non-Western societies so that prior findings from the West can be scrutinized and validated cross-culturally. This study is necessary because the theories developed in the West may not be entirely applicable to non-Western societies and cultural factors may in some cases be more important than socio-economic factors. By using the …

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Model Development Of A Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell To Predict Steady And Unsteady Behavior, Bikash Mishra Dec 2008

Model Development Of A Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell To Predict Steady And Unsteady Behavior, Bikash Mishra

Theses and Dissertations

Fuel cells are promising technology to meet the energy need of the future. This alternative energy source is clean and efficient, and with the continuous decrease in fossil fuel resources, one of the best bets towards sustaining our power needs. Fuel cells are being used in automobiles as well as to fulfill portable power needs. In this work a computational model has been developed for fuel cells which can be used to simulate traditional as well as passive proton exchange membrane fuel cell behavior. The model is unsteady, two phase, nonisothermal in nature, and also capable of handling natural convection …

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Molecular Dynamics Simulations Of Metals, Bohumir Jelinek Dec 2008

Molecular Dynamics Simulations Of Metals, Bohumir Jelinek

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation describes the development and testing of modified embedded atom method (MEAM) interatomic potentials for Al, Si, Mg, Cu, Fe, and their alloys, with primary concentration on Mg-Al system. We performed the density functional theory (DFT) based ab initio calculations to determine the structural and elastic properties of element pairs that are impractical to obtain from experimental measurements. Specifically, we estimated the cohesive energy, equilibrium atomic volume, bulk modulus, and elastic moduli of every element pair in the NaCl reference structure. Based on the results of DFT calculations, MEAM parameters for each element pair were constructed. We extensively tested …

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Morphological And Physiological Changes In Laying Hens In Various Stages Of Non-Feed Withdrawal Molt, Ann Laster Mcdonald Dec 2008

Morphological And Physiological Changes In Laying Hens In Various Stages Of Non-Feed Withdrawal Molt, Ann Laster Mcdonald

Theses and Dissertations

Molting is a natural occurrence in the Avian species that can include a period of fasting. Animal rights groups view the longepted standard industry practice as inhumane. Based on influences from these groups and the recommendation of its scientific committee, United Egg Producers (UEP) requires members of its Animal Care Certified Program use a noneed withdrawal molting program, even though the morphological and physiological effects of this method have not been studied in depth and the existing literature provides contradictory results. Research regarding how to induce a noneed withdrawal molt has been performed using feed that is nutrient deficient or …

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Formulation Of A Fruit Slush Using Evaporated Sweet Whey, Reginald Carl Sean Johnson Dec 2008

Formulation Of A Fruit Slush Using Evaporated Sweet Whey, Reginald Carl Sean Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

Wheyruit slush formulas were evaluated prior to consumer testing of pre-selected formulated beverages. Varying ingredients were prepared in accordance to a factorial design of maximum use of whey and minimum use of additional ingredients. Whey was obtained from the Mississippi State University Dairy Processing Plant and evaporated. The evaporated sweet whey was combined with blueberries, cherry concentrate, Splenda®, water and ice. Sensory tests were conducted to evaluate appearance, flavor and overall acceptability of formulations. Panelists were asked to participate in a survey to elaborate personal perceptions of the products. Formulation of 125mL whey and 30g blueberries had the higher acceptability …

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Evaluation Of Propane Fueled Chp Systems For Small Commercial Applications, Justin Byron Ramsay Dec 2008

Evaluation Of Propane Fueled Chp Systems For Small Commercial Applications, Justin Byron Ramsay

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis evaluates the effects of Combined Heating and Power (CHP) systems with a Propane fueled spark ignited engine as prime mover used in a small commercial building. The system was evaluated in five different U.S. cities. The most common operating modes, thermal load following (FTL) and electric load following (FEL) were evaluated, and an optimized operating mode was developed and investigated. The optimized operating mode is a hybrid (FHL) of FEL and FTL operation. Methodology for the derivation and application of these models is presented. Also, the economic effects of Diesel and Natural Gas were investigated. The results for …

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Experiments And Modeling Of Fatigue And Fracture Of Aluminum Alloys, J Brian Jordon Dec 2008

Experiments And Modeling Of Fatigue And Fracture Of Aluminum Alloys, J Brian Jordon

Theses and Dissertations

In this work, understanding the microstructural effects of monotonic and cyclic failure of wrought 7075-T651 and cast A356 aluminum alloys were examined. In particular, the structure-property relations were quantified for the plasticity/damage model and two fatigue crack models. Several types of experiments were employed to adapt an internal state variable plasticity and damage model to the wrought alloy. The damage model was originally developed for cast alloys and thus, the model was modified to account for void nucleation, growth, and coalescence for a wrought alloy. In addition, fatigue experiments were employed to determine structure-property relations for the cast alloy. Based …

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Factors Determining Per Acre Market Value Of Hunting Leases On Sixteenth Section Lands In Mississippi, Jacob Daniel Rhyne Dec 2008

Factors Determining Per Acre Market Value Of Hunting Leases On Sixteenth Section Lands In Mississippi, Jacob Daniel Rhyne

Theses and Dissertations

Valuation of leases based on the contingent valuation may be biased because hypothetical data has limitations. This study used the hedonic method to evaluate factors affecting the value of hunting leases on Sixteenth Section Lands in Mississippi that are auctioned to the public. Due to the competitive nature of the issuance of these leases, this study provides a comprehensive and unbiased estimate of the impact that cover type, game quality, distance to urban areas, and location have on hunting lease prices. The implicit prices of these characteristics indicate that land managers should adopt shorter lease lengths, smaller lease sizes and …

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Volume 44 - Issue 10 - Friday, December 12, 2008, Rose Thorn Staff Dec 2008

Volume 44 - Issue 10 - Friday, December 12, 2008, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

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The Problem With Tracking In Secondary Schools, Suzanne M. Rogers Dec 2008

The Problem With Tracking In Secondary Schools, Suzanne M. Rogers

Education 589 Projects

No abstract provided.

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Government Of The Vi V. Hewitt Pereira Dec 2008

Government Of The Vi V. Hewitt Pereira

2008 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands

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Usa V. Patterson Dec 2008

Usa V. Patterson

2008 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

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"The Crescent" Student Newspaper, December 12, 2008, George Fox University Archives Dec 2008

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper, December 12, 2008, George Fox University Archives

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of George Fox University.

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Reporter - December 12th 2008, Rit Reporter Staff Dec 2008

Reporter - December 12th 2008, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 98 [99], No. 24 (Dec. 12, 2008), The New Hampshire Dec 2008

The New Hampshire, Vol. 98 [99], No. 24 (Dec. 12, 2008), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 98, but it is the 99th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

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Fall 2008 Commencement Program, University Of Alabama In Huntsville Dec 2008

Fall 2008 Commencement Program, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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Daily Eastern News: December 12, 2008, Eastern Illinois University Dec 2008

Daily Eastern News: December 12, 2008, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

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Search For Third Generation Scalar Leptoquarks Decaying Into ΤB, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, D0 Collaboration Dec 2008

Search For Third Generation Scalar Leptoquarks Decaying Into ΤB, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, D0 Collaboration

Kenneth Bloom Publications

We have searched for third generation leptoquarks (LQ3) using 1.05 fb-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider operating at √s = 1.96 TeV. We set a 95% C.L. lower limit of 210 GeV on the mass of a scalar LQ3 state decaying solely to a b quark and a τ lepton.

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Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 12, 2008, Gwen Hayes Dec 2008

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 12, 2008, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The December 12, 2008, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

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Cooke V. State Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 32447 Dec 2008

Cooke V. State Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 32447

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

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State V. Allen Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 35497 Dec 2008

State V. Allen Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 35497

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

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State V. Allen Clerk's Record V. 2 Dckt. 35497 Dec 2008

State V. Allen Clerk's Record V. 2 Dckt. 35497

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

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Minutes, College Of Education Early Childhood Education Committee Meeting, December 12, 2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Education. Early Childhood Education Committee Dec 2008

Minutes, College Of Education Early Childhood Education Committee Meeting, December 12, 2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Education. Early Childhood Education Committee

College of Education: Ad Hoc and Occasional Committees

Minutes from the December 12, 2008, meeting of the Early Childhood Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's College of Education.

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Notes On Issues Related To The Zero Lower Bound On Nominal Interest Rates, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc) Dec 2008

Notes On Issues Related To The Zero Lower Bound On Nominal Interest Rates, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc)

Documents

Includes the Federal Reserve Experiences with Very Low Interest Rates Lessons Learned, Lessons from the Japanese Experience, Potential Effects of Very Low Policy Rates on Financial Markets and Institutions, Nonstandard Central Bank Policy Tools.

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Asset Purchase Agreement Among The Sellers Party Hereto Aig Securities Lending Corp., As Aig Agent American International Group Inc., Maiden Lane Ii Llc., As Buyer And Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, As Controlling Party, American International Group, Inc. (Aig), Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York Dec 2008

Asset Purchase Agreement Among The Sellers Party Hereto Aig Securities Lending Corp., As Aig Agent American International Group Inc., Maiden Lane Ii Llc., As Buyer And Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, As Controlling Party, American International Group, Inc. (Aig), Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Maiden Lane Ii Llc Administration Agreement, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, Maiden Lane Ii Llc, The Bank Of New York Mellon Dec 2008

Maiden Lane Ii Llc Administration Agreement, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, Maiden Lane Ii Llc, The Bank Of New York Mellon

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Motion On Upper-Plate Faults During Subduction Zone Earthquakes: Case Of The Atacama Fault System, Northern Chile, John P. Loveless, Matthew E. Pritchard Dec 2008

Motion On Upper-Plate Faults During Subduction Zone Earthquakes: Case Of The Atacama Fault System, Northern Chile, John P. Loveless, Matthew E. Pritchard

Geosciences: Faculty Publications

Motion on the Atacama Fault System (AFS) in northern Chile is driven by Andean subduction zone processes. We use two approaches, observational and theoretical, to evaluate how the AFS and other forearc faults responded to coseismic stress induced by one well-studied megathrust earthquake, the 1995 Mw = 8.1 Antofagasta event. We use synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) to search for small-scale coseismic and postseismic deformation on individual faults. The InSAR data are ambiguous: some images show offset consistent with coseismic faulting on the Paposo segment of the AFS and others lack such signal. The fact that we do not …

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Combinatorial Genericity And Minimal Rigidity, Ileana Streinu, Louis Theran Dec 2008

Combinatorial Genericity And Minimal Rigidity, Ileana Streinu, Louis Theran

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

A well studied geometric problem, with applications ranging from molecular structure determination to sensor networks, asks for the reconstruction of a set P of n unknown points from a finite set of pairwise distances (up to Euclidean isometries). We are concerned here with a related problem: which sets of distances are minimal with the property that they allow for the reconstruction of P, up to a finite set of possibilities? In the planar case, the answer is known generically via the landmark Maxwell-Laman Theorem from Rigidity Theory, and it leads to a combinatorial answer: the underlying structure of such a …

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Menstrual Cycle And Visual Information Processing, Michelle Nash Dec 2008

Menstrual Cycle And Visual Information Processing, Michelle Nash

Theses and Dissertations

This project examined the effects menstruation may have on visual attention in women. A recent study examined electroencephalographic (EEG) gender differences using a visual object recognition task. Results indicated certain EEG amplitudes (specifically, P300 and N400) are greater in women than men. This study extended the previous findings to determine if these increased EEG amplitudes vary across menstrual phases. Eighteen female participants participated in a series of 3 EEG recording sessions using the same visual object recognition task from the previous study; 18 male participants completed this task once. Analyses from 15 of the 18 female and 16 of the …

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The Beekeepers, Richard Robinson Dec 2008

The Beekeepers, Richard Robinson

Theses and Dissertations

The Beekeepers complements a film/digital video of the same name. It documents my process in creating alternative films/digital videos while pursuing my MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. It starts with my first film/digital video, “Redemption,” and traces my progression over two years culminating with the 25 minute experimental documentary, “The Beekeepers

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