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The Washington D.C. Profile: Focusing On Sustainability, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Lana Wald, Jennifer Cameron, Laura Bach

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This Washington, D.C. case study/profile presents findings from an evaluation that aimed to understand how evidence-based guidelines were disseminated, adopted, and used within state tobacco control programs.

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Mfh Tpci Evaluation Report Brief 7: Community Grants Strategy 2005-2010 Evaluation Findings, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton

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This report is part of a series developed to provide updates on the progress of the Missouri Foundation for Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative (TPCI). The report provides an overview of the activities and short-term outcomes that occurred between 2005 and 2010. Several changes to the TPCI structure occurred during this time period. In 2009, changes to the Initiative’s structure included the end of the regional and community grantee structure and the integration of School and Worksite Strategies into one Community Grants Strategy.

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Unf Journal Winter 2011, University Of North Florida

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A university periodical for alumni and friends of the University of North Florida.

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Pos Community Support Survey: Baseline Assessment, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Moreland-Russell

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This baseline assessment of tobacco advertising and promotion in St. Louis County indicated the need for county-wide adoption of point of sale (POS) policies. Community support for the restriction and elimination of tobacco product advertising and promotion is important to developing and implementing POS policies. In order to assess support for POS policies residents, the evaluation team conducted a survey of 500 St. Louis County residents.

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The Colorado Profile: Prioritizing Funding And Integration, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Jennifer Cameron, Lana Wald, Laura Bach

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This Colorado case study/profile presents findings from an evaluation that aimed to understand how evidence-based guidelines were disseminated, adopted, and used within state tobacco control programs.

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Ties User Manual, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton, Kari Lindberg, Julianne Cyr

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This manual facilitates grantees through the process of submitting data using the Tobacco Evaluation System (TIES). The manual provides detailed information about: submitting data, features of the system, registering a user account and managing user profiles, entering monthly and quarterly data, and producing data report summaries.

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Higher Education: Baseline Policy Assessment, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Bobbi Carothers, Doneisha Snider

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This report from the CPPW project presents the findings from a baseline assessment of tobacco policies in a sample of institutions of higher education in St. Louis County and City. A comprehensive evaluation plan has been developed to examine both process and outcome measures for the Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant, including changes in college/university tobacco policies.

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Healthy & Active Programs And Policies Evaluation: System Manual, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Laura Brossart, Chris Robichaux, Bobbi Carothers, Doug Luke, Dan Gentry

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The Healthy and Active Programs and Policies Evaluation (HAPPE) System is the data collection system for the MFH Healthy and Active Communities Initiative (H&AC) evaluation. The primary goals of the system are to serve as a centralized location to submit data, monitor progress over time, generate reports to meet program needs, and to allow the H&AC Evaluation Team to collect data across all H&AC programs.

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Community Grants Snapshots: Q1-Q4 Of 2011, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton

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This snapshot provides outcomes of the Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Initiative from January to December of 2011, and includes site data, cessation services & quit rate data, systems & policy changes, and resources.

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The Role Of Viral Protein Pul21a In Human Cytomegalovirus Infection, Anthony Fehr

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The double-stranded DNA virus human cytomegalovirus: HCMV) is a ubiquitous human pathogen that causes severe disease in immunocompromised individuals and neonates. The biology of HCMV remains largely undefined and functions of many of the roughly 200 putative HCMV genes are still unknown. One of these genes, UL21a, was shown to be critical for efficient viral replication in two large-scale mutagenesis studies. UL21a encodes for a putative protein that is 123 amino acids and has no homology to any known proteins. The gene products of UL21a, its role during infection, and its function(s) remain undefined. Here, we characterized UL21a and demonstrated …

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On The Road To Samaria: Urban Religious Congregations As Resource Brokers, Kirk Foster

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Concentrated poverty is an increasing problem in urban U.S. neighborhoods leading to social isolation and marginalization from mainstream institutions. Conventional thought has argued that the urban poor lack resources necessary for social and economic mobility due to constrained social networks endemic in homogeneously poor communities. However, neighborhood based organizations may be one place where the urban poor can engage heterogeneous resource networks to advance socially and economically. Religious congregations are enduring neighborhood organizations that present the opportunity for social interaction and resource access. Thus, this study examines the role of religious congregations in providing access to resources embedded in congregational …

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Spray Techniques And Lung Cancer Chemoprevention, Huijing Fu

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Chemoprevention is a promising approach to decrease the incidence of lung cancer in current and former smokers. Directly delivering drugs to the lung could lead to a high concentration in the target organ with a lower dose compared to other means of administration. The primary advantages of aerosol delivery in treating lung diseases include improving the bioavailability of the drug in the lung, decreasing the medicine dose, rapid action, and reducing the systemic toxicity as well as side effects. Spray techniques are widely used for aerosol delivery. Two spray techniques were evaluated in this study for their applications in lung …

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The Brains Of Babies: A Surface Based Approach To Study Cortical Development In Term And Preterm Human Infants, Jason Hill

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Half a million infants are born before term gestation each year in the United States. Although advances in newborn medicine have increased survival rates of very preterm infants to almost 90%, surviving preterm infants are at increased risk for developing lasting neurologic impairments. In order to develop a plausible neuroprotective strategy it is imperative that we improve our understanding of normal cortical development and develop tools to evaluate injury. Using a surface based approach we have characterized normal cortical development in healthy term infants and analyzed abnormalities associated with preterm birth. Accurate cortical surface reconstructions for each hemisphere of 12 …

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Asset Effects For Children With Disabilities: Analysis Of Educational And Health Outcomes, Jin Huang

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In the last two decades, asset-based social policies, which encourage families, especially low-income families, to accumulate assets by providing appropriate institutional settings, have received increasing attention from policymakers and researchers. Various programs and strategies have been outlined to improve saving and asset ownership opportunities in disadvantaged populations. Although there are multiple proposals of asset-based programs for children with disabilities, few of them have been implemented. To better inform asset-based policy practices for children with disabilities, this study examines asset effects for this population using the secondary survey data. Asset effects refer to the hypothesized positive influences of household assets on …

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Not Just A Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian As Collaborator, Composer And Creator, Kate Meehan

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During her relatively brief career, Cathy Berberian: 1925-83) became arguably the best-known singer of avant-garde vocal music in Europe and the United States. After 1950, when she married Italian composer Luciano Berio, Berberian premiered almost thirty new works by seventeen different composers and received the dedications of several more. Composers connected to her include: John Cage, Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Sylvano Bussotti, Henri Pousseur, Bruno Maderna, Bernard Rands, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and of course, Berio. Berberian's creative activities ranged widely and she participated many of the major postwar musical movements, including tape and electronic music, music theater, the baroque music revival, …

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The Role Of Ikkβ In Osteoclastogenesis And Inflammatory Osteolysis, Jesse Otero

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Bone homeostasis is essential for health and is altered in many pathological conditions. A balance in the activity of osteoblasts: bone-building cells) and osteoclasts: boneresorbing cells) determines the state of bone metabolism, and a tip in this balance toward either cell type is detrimental to health. In clinical settings, the most common bone diseases favor increased osteoclast activity and include osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis. Heightened osteoclast differentiation and activation in these conditions causes bone loss which results in increased fracture risk, bone pain, and deformity. Understanding the mechanisms by which osteoclasts develop will elucidate important targets for therapy in these …

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Identification Of The Molecular Basis Of Morphological Variation In Avian Beaks, Kara Powder

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Vertebrates, particularly birds, show extremely variable species-specific morphology in craniofacial structures. Cranial neural crest cells give rise to all the cartilage and bone of the face, and transplantation experiments have shown that these cells contain species-specific patterning information. First, I employed custom cross-species microarrays to analyze the spectrum of developmental signaling pathway and transcription factor gene expression changes in neural crest cells of the developing beaks for the chicken, duck, and quail, both before and after morphological variation is evident. I found that neural crest cells have established a species-specific gene expression profile that predates morphological variation. In addition to …

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Robert Schumann And The Gesangverein: The Dresden Years (1844 - 1850), Gina Pellegrino

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Nineteenth-century Germany saw an expansion of choral music in a secular context, bringing about changes not only in the nature of the organizations but also in the character of the music. Often depicted in history books as the age of the Lied, the early nineteenth century was also the age of the Chorgesang, creating a demand for music for social gatherings. Amateur choruses and partsinging reached their peak of popularity in nineteenth-century Germany. Gesangvereinen: mixed voice choirs) soon broke into segregated choirs known as Liedertafeln: male voice choirs) and Frauenchoren: female voice choirs). These segregated choirs became a phenomenon and …

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Aerosol Route Synthesis And Applications Of Doped Nanostructured Materials, Manoranjan Sahu

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Nanotechnology presents an attractive opportunity to address various challenges in air and water purification, energy, and other environment issues. Thus, the development of new nanoscale materials in low-cost scalable synthesis processes is important. Furthermore, the ability to independently manipulate the material properties as well as characterize the material at different steps along the synthesis route will aide in product optimization. In addition, to ensure safe and sustainable development of nanotechnology applications, potential impacts need to be evaluated. In this study, nanomaterial synthesis in a single-step gas phase reactor to continuously produce doped metal oxides was demonstrated. Copper-doped TiO2 nanomaterial properties: …

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Skeletal Muscle Impairments In People With Diabetes And Peripheral Neuropathy, Lori Tuttle

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Abstract of the Dissertation Skeletal Muscle Impairments in People with Diabetes and Peripheral Neuropathy by Lori Jeanne Tuttle Doctor of Philosophy in Movement Science Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 Dr. Michael J. Mueller, Chairperson Diabetes mellitus: DM) is a chronic disease that affects almost 24 million people and has large socioeconomic costs. Of these 24 million people, 60-70 % will develop some form of nervous system impairment, including peripheral neuropathy: PN). It is important to understand muscle structure and impairments in people with DM+PN in order to determine appropriate interventions to limit the disability that is associated with DM+PN. …

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Empirical Studies For Reliable Home Area Wireless Sensor Networks, Mo Sha

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Home Area Networks: HANs) consisting of wireless sensors have emerged as the enabling technology for important applications such as smart energy and assisted living. A key challenge faced by HANs is maintaining reliable operation in real-world residential environments. In this thesis research, empirical studies on the spectrum usage in the 2.4 GHz band as well as 802.15.4 wireless channels are performed in diversified real residential environments. Based on the insights drawn from empirical studies, network design guideline and practical solution for Home Area Sensor Network are provided.

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Examining The Effectiveness Of Multiple Imputation: A Case Study On Hiv Risk Behaviors In Women Receiving Treatment For Substance Use Disorders, Raphiel Murden

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Women in the United States are becoming infected with HIV more quickly now than ever before; many of whom are at higher risk because of their substance use habits or that of their partners.: CDC, 2010) This study analyzes cross sectional data regarding the risk behaviors and addiction severity of a sample of women receiving treatment for substance use disorders: SUDs). The data was gathered between 2006 and 2010 at a women's substance use treatment center in St. Louis, Missouri: MO), the name of which cannot be disclosed. We develop a scale, the HIV Risk Scale: HRS), to quantify a …

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Coalitions And Incumbency Advantage In Mexico, Samuel Bonilla Licea

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Despite the multi-party feature of the federal electoral system in Mexico, local elections are essentially embedded in a bipartisan system. Literature has thus far assumed that democratic transitions will permeate from the national to the sub-national level. However, in Mexico, even a decade after the democratic transition occurred at the federal level, some states have lagged behind. Most of the work done on this topic, for the Mexican case, analyzes the problem at a macro level that ignores the dynamics of election at local districts, focusing mainly on the link between the federal congress and state governors. I argue that …

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Decoding Brain Activation From Ipsilateral Cortex Using Ecog Signals In Humans, Yuzong Liu

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Today, learning from the brain is the most challenging issue in many areas. Neural scientists, computer scientists, and engineers are collaborating in this broad research area. With better techniques, we can extract the brain signals by either non-invasive approach such as EEG: electroencephalography), fMRI, or invasive method such as ECoG: electrocorticography), FP: field potential) and signals from single unit. The challenge is, given the brain signals, how can we possibly decipher them? Brain Computer Interfaces, or BCIs, aim at utilizing the brain signals to control prothetic arms or operate devices. Previously almost all the research on BCIs focuses on decoding …

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The Design, Construction, And Operation Of A Two-Photon Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope, Benjamin Alexander

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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment To Countries Of Latin America: A Comparative Study The Cases Of Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela And Cuba, Beatriz Schiava

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Foreign Direct Investment: FDI) brings benefits to host countries' populations, using job creation, opportunities for education, training, and technology. The host country benefits from FDI inflows, improving its economy, introducing new technology, organizational and managerial skills that help domestic companies while improving its political institutions. This author chose five countries of Latin America with different political systems and economic policies: Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba and Costa Rica. The goal of this thesis is to find out what kind of political systems and social environments in Latin America are best for attracting FDIs, and what are the obstacles those Latin American …

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The Georgian Crisis And U.S.-Russian Relations, Ekaterina Chertkova

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Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Russian relations, perplexed by constant strains and unresolved contradictions, shifted like a precarious seesaw. The former Soviet space has become a stage for an ambitious political game for regional supremacy between Moscow and Washington. Russia, eager to reestablish its great power status has tried to find a balance between collaboration with the West and its neo-imperialistic ambitions, aiming to preserve the control over its traditional sphere of influence. Washington, allured by the areaâ€™s natural resources riches, and after 9/11 terrorist attacks, in need of the regionâ€™s strategic location, has been creating its …

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Resilience Factors Affecting The Readjustment Of National Guard Soldiers Returning From Deployment, D. Patricia Tackett

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Following the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States, there has been increased utilization of the Reserve Components (RC) by the military to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Service members in the National Guard and Reserve (NG/R) represent approximately 40% of the forces involved in these conflicts. Current research indicates that NG/R personnel and their families may be at greater risk to deployment stressors than their Active Component counterparts. Estimates for the development of mental health problems including PTSD among returning RC personnel, range as high as 42%. The focus of this study was to advance the …

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Life Experiences That Contributed To The Independence And Success In The Lives Of Foster Care Alumni, Dawn Elizabeth Montgomery

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine the factors which helped these foster care alumni to persevere and to succeed. The intent was to provide a framework for equipping youth in foster care more effectively by building on their strengths and the resources available in foster care. The study’s method incorporated the interviewing of ten ethnically diverse individuals who had experienced the foster care system. Based on their insights and the themes which emerged, the WARRIORS Model was created. This acronym represents the key themes derived from the interviews: Wounded, Advocacy, Reality of Belonging, Resources, Inspired to Succeed, …

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Who Wants To Quit? Tobacco Cessation In Missouri, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Jill Kuhlberg, Amy Sorg, Sarah Shelton

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This report provides information on tobacco use cessation in Missouri. This report highlights both groups that are in need of cessation assistance and opportunities for more effective interventions in the health care services sector. Report findings and their associated recommendations may be used by the tobacco control community to inform their planning and programmatic efforts.

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The Washington D.C. Profile: Focusing On Sustainability, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Lana Wald, Jennifer Cameron, Laura Bach

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Mfh Tpci Evaluation Report Brief 7: Community Grants Strategy 2005-2010 Evaluation Findings, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton

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Unf Journal Winter 2011, University Of North Florida

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Pos Community Support Survey: Baseline Assessment, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Moreland-Russell

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The Colorado Profile: Prioritizing Funding And Integration, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Jennifer Cameron, Lana Wald, Laura Bach

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Ties User Manual, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton, Kari Lindberg, Julianne Cyr

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Higher Education: Baseline Policy Assessment, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Moreland-Russell, Bobbi Carothers, Doneisha Snider

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Healthy & Active Programs And Policies Evaluation: System Manual, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Laura Brossart, Chris Robichaux, Bobbi Carothers, Doug Luke, Dan Gentry

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Community Grants Snapshots: Q1-Q4 Of 2011, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Sarah Shelton

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The Role Of Viral Protein Pul21a In Human Cytomegalovirus Infection, Anthony Fehr

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On The Road To Samaria: Urban Religious Congregations As Resource Brokers, Kirk Foster

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Spray Techniques And Lung Cancer Chemoprevention, Huijing Fu

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The Brains Of Babies: A Surface Based Approach To Study Cortical Development In Term And Preterm Human Infants, Jason Hill

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Asset Effects For Children With Disabilities: Analysis Of Educational And Health Outcomes, Jin Huang

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Not Just A Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian As Collaborator, Composer And Creator, Kate Meehan

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The Role Of Ikkβ In Osteoclastogenesis And Inflammatory Osteolysis, Jesse Otero

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Identification Of The Molecular Basis Of Morphological Variation In Avian Beaks, Kara Powder

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Robert Schumann And The Gesangverein: The Dresden Years (1844 - 1850), Gina Pellegrino

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Aerosol Route Synthesis And Applications Of Doped Nanostructured Materials, Manoranjan Sahu

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Skeletal Muscle Impairments In People With Diabetes And Peripheral Neuropathy, Lori Tuttle

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Empirical Studies For Reliable Home Area Wireless Sensor Networks, Mo Sha

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Examining The Effectiveness Of Multiple Imputation: A Case Study On Hiv Risk Behaviors In Women Receiving Treatment For Substance Use Disorders, Raphiel Murden

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Coalitions And Incumbency Advantage In Mexico, Samuel Bonilla Licea

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Decoding Brain Activation From Ipsilateral Cortex Using Ecog Signals In Humans, Yuzong Liu

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The Design, Construction, And Operation Of A Two-Photon Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope, Benjamin Alexander

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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment To Countries Of Latin America: A Comparative Study The Cases Of Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela And Cuba, Beatriz Schiava

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The Georgian Crisis And U.S.-Russian Relations, Ekaterina Chertkova

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Resilience Factors Affecting The Readjustment Of National Guard Soldiers Returning From Deployment, D. Patricia Tackett

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Life Experiences That Contributed To The Independence And Success In The Lives Of Foster Care Alumni, Dawn Elizabeth Montgomery

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Who Wants To Quit? Tobacco Cessation In Missouri, Center For Public Health Systems Science, Jill Kuhlberg, Amy Sorg, Sarah Shelton

Center for Public Health Systems Science