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Internalizing Symptoms In Youth: A Longitudinal Moderated Mediation Model Of Maternal Symptoms And Parent-Child Interactions, Sarah Bostick

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

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Interaction Effects Of Multiple Levels Of Disadvantage And Kinship Foster Care In African American Youth, Anne Rufa

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Child welfare services' current practice is to attempt to identify kinship foster settings first when removing a child from their home, a practice used disproportionately for African American youth. In this study, potential contextual factors of foster homes (i.e., community environment, caregiver's age, caregiver's physical health) were identified as possible moderators of the relationship between the type of out-of-home placement (i.e., kinship, other out-of-home placement) used and changes in internalizing and externalizing scores in African American youth. Results confirm a significant increase in internalizing and externalizing scores when youth are placed in kinship foster homes with caregivers who are older …

The Role Of Attributions In Stereotype Threat Effects: Female Achievements In Stem Domains, Caitlyn Yantis

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Despite some advances, the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields persists. Stereotype threat has been cited as a debilitating phenomenon that may contribute to the underrepresentation of women in STEM domains (e.g., Ambady, Shih, Kim, & Pittinsky,2001). Using the attributional model of stereotypes (Reyna, 2000), the current work explores the role of attributions in a stereotype threat context. Seventy-two female undergraduates were randomly assigned to one of four attribution conditions to explain female detriments in logical reasoning: effort, ability, society, or no stereotype. All participants then completed a test of logical reasoning. Although previous research has …

Effects Of Timeframe On The Recall Reliability Of Me/Cfs Symptoms, Meredyth Evans

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

This study served as an investigation of the effects of symptom stability, timeframe length, and momentary symptom severity on the recall reliability of symptoms experienced by individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). ME/CFS symptoms were assessed at four recall timeframes (right now, the past week, the past month, and the past six months) and at two assessment points. Analyses revealed that test-retest reliability was significantly stronger for recall of post-exertlonal malaise (PEM), headaches, and memory problems, when these symptoms were perceived to be stable over time rather than variable. It was also revealed that the optimal timeframe for variable …

Assembly Of The Didymium Iridis Mitochondrial Genome By Genome Walking, Dale Kopp

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Organelle inheritance and RNA editing has been studied in Didymium iridis even though the genome has not been completely sequenced. Four segments, comprising 66 kb, have been sequenced in the past. Several approaches have been taken to complete the sequence including restriction mapping and southern hybridization, as well as screening clone banks by PCR with the sequence of contig ends. In this study, genome walking was used to uncover sequences connecting the four segments. Using genome walking, approximately 4,113 bp of new sequence was identified. With the new sequence and the characterization of two previously sequenced D. iridis mt regions …

Corrosion Behavior And Residual Stress Of Microarc Oxidation Coated Az31 Magnesium Alloy For Biomedical Applications, Yanhong Gu

Engineering

Mg alloys are potentially new biomaterials for bone repair or replacement. Appropriate coating is, however, needed to make the Mg alloy more resistant to corrosion. In this research, protective microarc oxidation (MAO) coatings were produced on AZ31 Mg alloys in sodium phosphate electrolyte. The coatings were produced under varying pulse frequency, applied voltage, oxidation time and electrolyte concentrations. This research analyzed the effects of the above four MAO process control parameters on the residual stresses and the corrosion behavior. Optimization of the MAO control parameters would allow production of AZ31 Mg alloy with high corrosion resistance. It is well accepted …

Whose Hands Ply The Strands? Survey Of Eastern Michigan University Psychology Faculty Regarding Faculty And Librarian Roles In Nurturing Psychology Information Literacy, Keith Stanger

Faculty Scholarship - University Library

The Association of College and Research Libraries developed information literacy standards and associated performance indicators for undergraduate psychology students. A survey of tenure-track faculty members and full-time lecturers in the Psychology Department at Eastern Michigan University was conducted to discover how those professors viewed the importance of these indicators, and how those professors perceived their role, as well as the role of librarians, in supporting instruction that develops those skills. The psychology faculty acknowledged the curricular value of the information literacy performance indicators and perceived librarians as having a supportive role relative to their own more primary role in developing …

Growth Of Juvenile Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha) As An Indicator Of Density-Dependence In The Chena River, Megan T. Perry

Biological Sciences

In management of Pacific salmon, it is often assumed that density-dependent factors, mediated by the physical environment during freshwater residency, regulate population size prior to smolting and outmigration. However, in years following low escapement, temperature may be setting the upper limit on growth of juvenile chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha during the summer rearing period. Given the importance of juvenile salmon survival for the eventual adult population size, we require a greater understanding of how density-dependent and independent factors affect juvenile demography through time. In this study we tested the hypotheses that (1) juvenile chinook salmon in the Chena River are …

Nutritional Ecology Of Moose In An Urban Landscape, Joseph H. Welch

Biological Sciences

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), Alaska supports a large population of moose that lives in and around the urban and industrial development of Anchorage. This study evaluates the body condition of adult female moose on JBER and calculates the relative nutritional value of habitat for planning development and for mitigating the effects of development on this population. Body condition of moose on JBER was similar to that of other populations of moose in Alaska. Our nutritional model predicted that shrublands could support 11-81 times more moose than any other habitat on JBER. Activity patterns of JBER moose were similar to those …

Controls On Ecosystem Respiration Of Carbon Dioxide Across A Boreal Wetland Gradient In Interior Alaska, Nicole A. Mcconnell

Biological Sciences

Permafrost and organic soil layers are common to most wetlands in interior Alaska, where wetlands have functioned as important long-term soil carbon sinks. Boreal wetlands are diverse in both vegetation and nutrient cycling, ranging from nutrient-poor bogs to nutrient- and vascular-rich fens. The goals of my study were to quantify growing season ecosystem respiration (ER) along a gradient of vegetation and permafrost in a boreal wetland complex, and to evaluate the main abiotic and biotic variables that regulate CO₂ release from boreal soils. Highest ER and root respiration were observed at a sedge/forb community and lowest ER and root respiration …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Names on Trees: Ariosto into Art (Rensselaer W. Lee) (Reviewed by R. W. Hanning, Columbia University)

The Growth of a Personal Voice: Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene (Judith H. Anderson) (Reviewed by Judith Dundas, University of Illinois)

The Harmonies of "The Merchant of Venice" (Lawrence Danson) (Reviewed by Marilyn Williamson, Wayne State University)

Virginia Woolf: Sources of Madness and Art (Jean O. Love) (Reviewed by Diane Filby Gillespie, Washington State University)

Augustus Caesar in "Augustan" England: The Decline of a Classical Norm (Howard D. Weinbrot) (Reviewed by Thomas E. Maresca, State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Carlyle …

Improving The Quantitative Assessment Of Intraretinal Features By Determining Both Structural And Optical Properties Of The Retinal Tissue With Optical Coherence Tomography, Wei Gao

Open Access Dissertations

The goal of this project is to obtain quantitative assessments of intraretinal features by determining the structural and optical properties of retinal tissue with optical coherence tomography. To accomplish this goal, structural and optical properties, in addition to thickness measurements, were extracted from OCT-based images and were used for the discrimination of DM eyes with and without DR from healthy eyes. First, structural parameters including the thickness, fractal dimension, energy, entropy, correlation and contrast were evaluated for each intraretinal layer using various image processing techniques such as speckle noise removal, retinal segmentation and blood vessel shadow removal. In addition, optical …

Locust Dynamics: Behavioral Phase Change And Swarming, Chad M. Topaz, Maria R. D'Orsogna, Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Andrew J. Bernoff

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

Locusts exhibit two interconvertible behavioral phases, solitarious and gregarious. While solitarious individuals are repelled from other locusts, gregarious insects are attracted to conspecifics and can form large aggregations such as marching hopper bands. Numerous biological experiments at the individual level have shown how crowding biases conversion towards the gregarious form. To understand the formation of marching locust hopper bands, we study phase change at the collective level, and in a quantitative framework. Specifically, we construct a partial integrodifferential equation model incorporating the interplay between phase change and spatial movement at the individual level in order to predict the dynamics of …

State V. Brunet Appellant's Brief Dckt. 39550

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Movement, Habitat Use And Detection Probability Of Bridle Shiner Estimated By Patch Occupancy Modeling In A Connecticut Watershed, Timothy Jensen

Master's Theses

The bridle shiner (Notropis bifrenatus) is believed to have once been an important prey item throughout its native range; however, recent reports suggest populations have declined significantly and the species is now widely considered as imperiled. Habitats that are associated with this species are typically difficult to sample using traditional methods, making it unclear how much of the observed range reduction could be actual or perceived. My objectives were to estimate detection probability of bridle shiner, evaluate the importance of habitat on their distribution, and determine patterns of movement among habitat patches. I employed a repeated surveys design …

Design And Simulation Of A Mechanical Hand, Yateen P. Shembade

Theses

A variety of mechanical hand designs have been developed in the past few decades. The majority of the designs were made with the sole purpose of imitating the human hand and its capabilities; however, none of these designs have been equipped with all the motions and sensory capabilities of the human hand. The primary goal of this thesis project was to design a robotic hand with the required amount of degrees-of-freedom and necessary constraints to achieve all the motions of the human hand. Demonstration of the American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet, using a virtual design and controls platform, was used …

Formation And Characterization Of Non-Growth States In Clostridium Thermocellum: Spores And L-Forms, Elizabeth B. Mearls, Javier A. Izquierdo, Lee R. Lynd

Dartmouth Scholarship

Clostridium thermocellum is an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium that exhibits high levels of cellulose solublization and produces ethanol as an end product of its metabolism. Using cellulosic biomass as a feedstock for fuel production is an attractive prospect, however, growth arrest can negatively impact ethanol production by fermentative microorganisms such as C. thermocellum. Understanding conditions that lead to non-growth states in C. thermocellum can positively influence process design and culturing conditions in order to optimize ethanol production in an industrial setting.

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (Julia Kristeva) (Reviewed by Eugen Baer, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

Petrarch's Poetics and Literary History (Marguerite R. Waller) (Reviewed by Andrea di Tommaso, Wayne State University)

Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts (Margot Heinemann) (Reviewed by Philip J. Finkelpearl, University of Massachusetts, Boston)

The Sword and the Spirit: Puritan Responses to the Bible (John R. Knott) (Reviewed by Boyd Berry, Virginia Commonwealth University)

Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot, & Lawrence (Judith Wilt) (Reviewed by Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University)

The Living Dead: A …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Is There A Text in This Class? (Stanley Fish) (Reviewed by Ronald L. Bogue, University of Georgia)

Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and Their Posterity (Donald R. Howard) (Reviewed by Paul Strohm, Indiana University)

John Webster: Citizen and Dramatist (M. C. Bradbrook) (Reviewed by Leonard Tennenhouse, Wayne State University)

Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry (Louis L. Martz) (Reviewed by Annabel M. Patterson, The University of Maryland)

Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering (James H. Averill) (Reviewed by William Galperin, Oregon State University)

English Romantic Irony (Anne K. Mellor) (Reviewed by Paul A. Cantor, University of …

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Anatomy of Criticism (Northrop Frye) (Reviewed by Alexander Sackton, University of Texas)

The Flaming Heart (Mario Praz) (Reviewed by Alexander Sackton, University of Texas)

The Beautiful, The Sublime, and The Picturesque in Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetic Theory (Walter John Hipple, Jr) (Reviewed by Martin Kallich, Northern Illinois University)

Critical Moments: Kenneth Burke's Categories and Critiques (George Knox) (Reviewed by Richard Williams, University of Chicago)

Census Overview: Basics, Decennial, Acs, And Estimates, David J. Drozd

CPAR Presents: A Data and Research Series for Community Impact

This presentation discusses: Terminology & Definitions; Questionnaires & Concepts; How does CPAR typically analyze race/ethnicity?; Census Datafiles; ACS Data Release Schedule (full implementation in 2005); Geography; Geography vs. Data (A Duel); Relationship between Data/Datafiles and Geography; PUMA geography; The American Community Survey: What is it?; ACS Methodology in Brief; 2011 ACS Data Release; Multi-year Aggregate Estimates: Advantages; ACS New Subject Areas; The 2009 ACS Nebraska “Double Whammy”; Point Estimates, MOE and Confidence Intervals; Population Estimates Program: Basics, Census Methodology in Brief, and Its Importance; and Estimates Program Data; Bottomline: Ask Yourself These Questions.

The Cosmic X-Ray Background Nanosat (Cxbn): Measuring The Cosmic X-Ray Background Using The Cubesat Form Factor, Kevin Brown, Tyler Rose, Benjamin Malphrus, Jeffrey Kruth, Eric Thomas, Michael Combs, Roger Mcneil, Robert Kroll, Benjamin Cahall, Tyler Burba, Brandon Molton, Margaret Powell, Jonathan Fitzpatrick, Daniel Graves, J. Garrett Jernigan, Lance Simms, John Doty, Matthew Wampler-Doty, Steve Anderson, Lynn Cominsky, Kamal Prasad, Stephen Gaalema, Shunming Sun

Small Satellite Conference

The CXBN mission goal is to significantly increase the Cosmic X-Ray Background measurement precision in the 30-50 keV range. The mission addresses a fundamental science question central to our understanding of the structure, origin, and evolution of the universe by potentially lending insight into the high energy background radiation. The CXBN spacecraft will map the Extragalactic Diffuse X-Ray Background (DXRB) with a new Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detector. The DXRB measurement will pose a powerful tool for understanding the early universe and a window to the far-away universe. The science objectives were condensed into a novel spacecraft concept characterized by …

Prescriptions For Excellence In Health Care Summer 2012 Download Full Pdf

Prescriptions for Excellence in Health Care Newsletter Supplement

No abstract provided.

Open Source Research In Sustainability, Joshua M. Pearce

Department of Materials Science and Engineering Publications

Most academics, who as researchers and teachers dedicate their lives to information sharing, would likely agree with much of the hacker ethic, which is a belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good and there is an ethical duty to share expertise by writing free and open-source code and facilitating access to information wherever possible. However, despite a well-established gift culture similar to that of the open source software movement in academic publishing and the tenure process many academics fail to openly provide the “source” (e.g. data sets, literature reviews, detailed experimental methodologies, designs, and open access to results) of …

Ocean Governance: The New Zealand Dimension Full Report, Michael Vincent Mcginnis

Working Papers

The primary goal of this report is to provide interested members of the public and policymakers with a general overview and a description of the types of principles, planning tools, and policy instruments that can be used to strengthen and improve marine governance in New Zealand. As extractive uses (hydrocarbons and minerals, in particular) ramp up and others are explored and brought on line in the marine areas of New Zealand, the need will increase for a more integrative, ecosystem-based approach to marine governance.

This study is based on the following types of analysis:

• a review of the literature …

Usda, Cdfa Applaud Dominican Research, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Studies conducted at both the NORS-DUC facility in San Rafael and at a commercial nursery in the San Joaquin Valley, which had been under quarantine due to P. ramorum infestation for the past 12 months, show that steaming infected soil at temperatures of 50°C and higher for 30 minutes completely eliminated P. ramorum from previously infected soil.

Children Museum Experience: Exploratory Study Of Potential Of Museum Visits In Achieving Learning Goals Of Irish Ecec Curriculum Framework Aistear, Anna Ćwidak

Dissertations

This qualitative study examines the potential of museum visits in achieving learning goals of Early Childhood Education and Care as listed in the Irish ECEC Curriculum Framework Aistear. Data obtained through interviewing professionals of both ECEC and museum education sector has been compared and confronted with the literature available. The study focuses on three main areas.

Firstly, it looks at the learning goals listed in Aistear and attempts to link them with the potential outcomes of children’s museum visits. The interviewees were asked to recognise and comment on learning experience that ECEC groups participate in during an outing to a …

2012-2013, Collin College

Course Catalogs

Contains information on courses and class descriptions as well as campus resources at Collin College.

Eng 5010-001: Studies In 20th Century American Literature & Culture: Remediating 9/11, Melissa Ames

Fall 2012

No abstract provided.

What Can Computed Tomography And Magnetic Resonance Imaging Tell Us About Ventilation?, Brett A Simon, David W Kaczka, Alexander A Bankier, Grace Parraga

Medical Biophysics Publications

This review provides a summary of pulmonary functional imaging approaches for determining pulmonary ventilation, with a specific focus on multi-detector x-ray computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We provide the important functional definitions of pulmonary ventilation typically used in medicine and physiology and discuss the fact that some of the imaging literature describes gas distribution abnormalities in pulmonary disease that may or may not be related to the physiological definition or clinical interpretation of ventilation. We also review the current state-of-the-field in terms of the key physiological questions yet unanswered related to ventilation and gas distribution in lung disease. …