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Promoting The Safe Mobility Of Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Austin M. Svancara
Promoting The Safe Mobility Of Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Austin M. Svancara
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Having access to adequate transportation is important for employment, healthcare, and community involvement needs. Unfortunately, the transportation needs of many individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are currently not being met. Despite having the capability to achieve licensure, a significant portion of high functioning individuals with ASD are delaying licensure or not getting their driver’s license at all. High functioning individuals with ASD are likely to have the capacity to operate a motor vehicle safely, supporting the proposition that there are existing barriers to licensure beyond the contributing role of ASD traits. This dissertation examined the perceived driving styles and …
Defect Properties Determined By Photo-Induced Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy In Carbon-Doped Gallium Nitride Substrates, Subash Paudel
Defect Properties Determined By Photo-Induced Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy In Carbon-Doped Gallium Nitride Substrates, Subash Paudel
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GaN is being investigated as an active material in light-emitting diodes and high electron mobility transistors. Recently, it has attracted researchers’ attention for high-power applications due to its larger bandgap and electric breakdown field compared to other well‐known semiconductors such as Si, GaAs, and SiC. High-power applications in electronic devices often require semi-insulating layers or substrates for homoepitaxial growth. However, as-grown GaN is n-type due to the presence of unintentional donors. The acceptor impurities like carbon must be added to create semi-insulating material. Although it is established that incorporating carbon impurity makes semi-insulating GaN, the defect responsible and the process …
Magnetic Ordering In The High-Pressure Phases Of Rare Earth Elements Holmium And Dysprosium Revealed By Neutron Diffraction, Christopher S. Perreault
Magnetic Ordering In The High-Pressure Phases Of Rare Earth Elements Holmium And Dysprosium Revealed By Neutron Diffraction, Christopher S. Perreault
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Neutron diffraction experiments on rare earth metals dysprosium (Dy) and holmium (Ho) have been performed to high pressure and low temperature using novel large-volume diamond anvil cells (DAC) at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Neutron diffraction is necessary to determine the magnetic structure of these materials due to the intrinsic spin property of neutrons. High pressure neutron diffraction experiments have historically been limited in the pressure and temperature range achievable due to the use of Paris-Edinburgh (PE) press, however new advances in large volume diamond anvil cells allows a much broader range of pressures …
Sturmian Theorems, Asymptotic Behavior For Eigenvalues, And Spectral Theory For Ordinary Differential Equations With Distributional Coefficients, Minh Nguyen
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We study the theory of ordinary differential equations whose coefficients are distributions of order 0. In the first chapter of the thesis, we present some of the basic facts about the theory of distributions of order 0, the first-order ordinary differential equation with distributional coefficients, and the theory of linear relation associated with these differential equations. In the second chapter, we study the spectral theory of the first order equation with distributional coefficients. In particular, we prove that the adjoint of the minimal relation is equal to the maximal relation, which is a cornerstone for a spectral theory since it …
Entanglement Entropy Bound And Emptiness Formation Probability Of The Xxz Spin Chain, Oluwadara Ogunkoya
Entanglement Entropy Bound And Emptiness Formation Probability Of The Xxz Spin Chain, Oluwadara Ogunkoya
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The first part of this thesis covers some of the background materials that are prerequisite to doing research in many body particle problems. The definitions are given from a mathematical point of view and the proofs to most of the results were not included since they can be found in standard texts. The second part was done with Christoph Fischbacher. Here, we consider the Heisenberg XXZ spin-J chain (J ∈ N/2) with anisotropy parameter Δ. Assuming that Δ > 2J (a necessary but not sufficient condition), and introducing threshold energies EK := K (1 − 2J / Δ) , we show …
Influencing Factors Of Child Pedestrian Safety In Parking Lots And Residential Streets, Jenni Liveoak
Influencing Factors Of Child Pedestrian Safety In Parking Lots And Residential Streets, Jenni Liveoak
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There is ample data from epidemiological sources that suggest pedestrian risks to young children are a dire public health concern. However, there is very little scientific evidence to adequately understand this concern. Two observational studies revealed potential risks to young pedestrians in non-intersection locations. Both studies unobtrusively observed children between 2-10 years of age and an accompanying adult. First, 124 adult/child dyads were observed crossing from a parked vehicle to the building entrance of six local YMCA locations. Results of this study indicate that adult supervision was inadequate with over 67% of children observed to be unsupervised in the parking …
Shifting The Narrative: Resources Promoting Positive Parenting Independent Of Abuse Risk, Samantha Gonzalez
Shifting The Narrative: Resources Promoting Positive Parenting Independent Of Abuse Risk, Samantha Gonzalez
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Parenting is exceptionally influential during the first few years of children’s lives as this stage represents a sensitive developmental period. Quality of parenting is particularly important and the current empirical focus on prediction of at-risk parenting does not capture the full picture of what contributes to children’s and families’ well-being. Greater understanding of maternal and paternal positive parenting and its contributors—including a focus on potential protective factors to serve as resources—is essential to move family science more reliably toward a model of prevention of adverse outcomes rather than solely intervention. Furthermore, the field continues to be dominated by self-report methods …
Scalable Subgraph Mining In A Big Graph, Guimu Guo
Scalable Subgraph Mining In A Big Graph, Guimu Guo
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Finding from a big graph those subgraphs that satisfy certain conditions is useful in many applications such as community detection and subgraph matching. These problems have a high time complexity, but existing systems to scale them are all IO-bound in execution. We propose the first truly CPU-bound distributed framework called G-thinker that adopts a userfriendly subgraph-centric vertex-pulling API for writing distributed subgraph mining algorithms. To utilize all CPU cores of a cluster, G-thinker features (1) a highly concurrent vertex cache for parallel task access and (2) a lightweight task scheduling approach that ensures high task throughput. These designs well overlap …
Alternating Field Electrospinning For Fabrication Of Inorganic Nanofibers In The Al2o3-Sio2-Mgo System, W Anthony Brayer
Alternating Field Electrospinning For Fabrication Of Inorganic Nanofibers In The Al2o3-Sio2-Mgo System, W Anthony Brayer
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Nanofibrous ceramics are some of the most promising nano-materials but current production methods are too expensive, too slow, and too inconsistent for applications outside of laboratory proof of concepts. The refractors, catalytic, and aerospace industries have long had an interest in these materials because of their superior thermal, physical, and chemical resistant properties. Ceramic nanofiber structures in the Al2O3-SiO2-MgO system were fabricated from polyvinyl butyral based precursor-nanofibers prepared using a novel free-surface alternating field electrospinning method (AFES). Precursor fibers were generated at rates up to 8.8 g/h and collected as 100–300 μm thick sheets suitable for direct conversion into the …
Adaptive Functioning And Academic Achievement In Survivors Of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Associations With Executive Functioning And Socioeconomic Status, Victoria C. Seghatol-Eslami
Adaptive Functioning And Academic Achievement In Survivors Of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Associations With Executive Functioning And Socioeconomic Status, Victoria C. Seghatol-Eslami
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This study examined the associations of functional outcomes (adaptive functioning and academic achievement) with executive functioning and neighborhood-specific variables (area deprivation and child opportunity) and individualized education plan (IEP) support in survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). From a retrospective database, 44 patients (38.6% female, 72.7% non-Hispanic White, ages 6-17) previously diagnosed with low-risk or standard-risk pre-B cell ALL and treated with chemotherapy-only were identified. Participants were evaluated on performance-based measures of executive functioning and academic achievement, and parent-ratings of executive and adaptive functioning. Within adaptive functioning, 45.5% of patients showed impairment (≥ 1 SD above the normative mean) …
Representing Motherhood And Aging In Leonora Carrington's Bird Iconography, Claire Lesar
Representing Motherhood And Aging In Leonora Carrington's Bird Iconography, Claire Lesar
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This thesis investigates the evolution of animal representations in paintings and sculptures of Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Writings on her early Surrealist work often draw attention to Carrington’s embrace of the horse as a representation of self. However, over her extensive career, the menagerie of animals she draws from to depict herself evolves. I suggest that Carrington’s horse is more broadly significant as a narrative model that she adapts later in her career and that Carrington’s use of bird iconography emerges as a new form to symbolize other “rebirths” or periods of transition in her life, such as motherhood and aging. …
"The Cloak Of Social Feeling": Alfred Adler's Gemeinschaftsgefuhl In Practice And Memory, Esteban T. Arnold
"The Cloak Of Social Feeling": Alfred Adler's Gemeinschaftsgefuhl In Practice And Memory, Esteban T. Arnold
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This thesis provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Alfred Adler’s concept of Gemeinschaftsgefühl (community feeling), a simple yet potent idea that started in a Viennese café and expanded far beyond it. Ideas have lives beyond that of their authors, and this thesis argues that Alfred Adler’s idea of Gemeinschaftsgefühl was pressed into the service of various social and political agendas. Adler was privately a socialist, but he never wished to see Gemeinschaftsgefühl become a tool for this or any other movement. With an idealistic worldview, Adler sought to challenge and transform the pervading medical and psychotherapeutic conceptions of …
Adolescent Alcohol, Tobacco, And Marijuana Use And Dma Methylation In Young Adulthood, Kristina Brooke Mcmahan
Adolescent Alcohol, Tobacco, And Marijuana Use And Dma Methylation In Young Adulthood, Kristina Brooke Mcmahan
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Substance use, including the use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs, is most likely to begin during adolescence or emerging adulthood. Substance use during these developmental periods has been linked with a number of negative physical, mental, and cognitive health outcomes. Some of these long-term negative effects of substance use during adolescence and emerging adulthood may be explained by epigenetic changes through a process called DNA methylation. However, much of the research on substance use and DNA methylation has focused on prenatal drug exposure and its relationship to differential methylation profiles during childhood and young adulthood. By contrast, little …
Multiplicities Of Polygon Numbers, Alyssa R. Wilke
Multiplicities Of Polygon Numbers, Alyssa R. Wilke
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Imagine that we have an unlimited number of congruent equilateral triangles. We define a trapezoid number as the number of equilateral triangles used to tile a trapezoid. Similarly, we define a parallelogram number as the number of equilateral triangles needed to tile a parallelogram. We define the multiplicity of a trapezoid or parallelogram number as the number of ways we can construct the polygon for given number up to congruence. We show a parallelogram number can always be written as 2kh and a trapezoid number as h(2k + h), where we define the height h as the length of the …
The Effect Of Laser-Plasma Conditions In Ss-Fese Epitaxy By Pulsed Laser Deposition, Kamron Strickland
The Effect Of Laser-Plasma Conditions In Ss-Fese Epitaxy By Pulsed Laser Deposition, Kamron Strickland
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Ultrafast Broadband Dynamics In Novel Classes Of Metamaterials, Uddhab Tiwari
Ultrafast Broadband Dynamics In Novel Classes Of Metamaterials, Uddhab Tiwari
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Manipulating electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale has gained significant interest as they can enhance device efficiency in the energy, telecommunication, and medical sectors. The ever-increasing demand for smaller, faster, and efficient optoelectronic devices lead to plasmonics — metallic nanostructures which can manipulate light below the diffraction limit. Recently, all-dielectric nanostructures have also shown to create high quality-factor resonances, with strong electric and magnetic near-fields created due to displacement currents. While silicon is the material of choice — because of its high refractive index, compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor, and strong non-linear response — its broadband dynamics is not fully understood in …
Superhero Media And Risk-Taking: Is Superhero Play A Risk Factor For Unintentional Injury In Preschool-Aged Children?, Casie H. Morgan
Superhero Media And Risk-Taking: Is Superhero Play A Risk Factor For Unintentional Injury In Preschool-Aged Children?, Casie H. Morgan
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The preschool years represent a time of rapid human development, hallmarked by exploring one’s environment through gross and fine motor movement, touching and tasting physical objects, and imaginative pretend play. This exploration is developmentally appropriate, but also presents risks. Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for preschool-aged children, and common injuries reflect exploration and risk-taking exhibited during play. Pretend play may be particularly risky if children imitate risky models like superheroes. Superhero media is extremely popular among young children, leading many children to identify closely with superheroes. Frequent exposure and subsequent identification with superheroes is concerning because media …
Examining Family Health Through Family-Centered Care Within An Organizational Context, Bria Kathryn Morgan
Examining Family Health Through Family-Centered Care Within An Organizational Context, Bria Kathryn Morgan
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Introduction: Family health is characterized as a multi-dimensional process that is shaped by a number of social determinants. Similar to individual health, various domains work in conjunction and intersect to produce family health. Family-centered care is one of the many ways that healthcare providers can support health, however, little is known about if and how it is beneficial for family health. Considering the relevance of an organizational context, this study seeks to understand the delivery of care within an organization and providers’ perceptions of family-centered care. Data/Methods: Using the case of the Ronald McDonald House, this study integrates qualitative content …
Resonant Solutions To Gross-Pitaevskii Equation With Periodic Potential, Arien Duaibes
Resonant Solutions To Gross-Pitaevskii Equation With Periodic Potential, Arien Duaibes
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Over the years, many methods have been used for solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation which is also known as a nonlinear Schrodinger equation. In this thesis, we study a nonlinear polyharmonic equation with a periodic potential and quasi-periodic boundary conditions in dimensions higher than one. A special case of the equation, in two dimensions, is the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. This thesis aims to find solutions close to combinations of two plane waves at high energy. To start with, we use a technique similar to that known for the linear case. Then, we construct a method of successive approximations. We obtain the desired …
Longitudinal Investigation Of Financial Capacity And Driving Performance In Mild Cognitive Impairment, Tyler P. Bull
Longitudinal Investigation Of Financial Capacity And Driving Performance In Mild Cognitive Impairment, Tyler P. Bull
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Previous research has shown that Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is an intermediary between normal aging and dementia that is associated with declines in financial capacity and driving performance, two important instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). Both financial capacity and driving performance have been studied cross-sectionally within an MCI population, but there is limited information on the changes in performance over time. The present study utilized data from a recent longitudinal clinical trial of speed of processing training to further examine changes in driving performance and financial capacity over time. Participants included seventy-five older adults with MCI who completed an …
Vulcan Historical Review 25 (Front Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff
Vulcan Historical Review 25 (Front Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff
Vulcan Historical Review
No abstract provided.
Quota, Shannon Mary Brandt
State-Sanctioned Silence: A Look Into The Repression Of Black Voices, Kameryn Thigpen
State-Sanctioned Silence: A Look Into The Repression Of Black Voices, Kameryn Thigpen
Vulcan Historical Review
pp. 60-65
Hitchhike, David Kirby
Cousins, Angela Ball
Eggs, Samatha Leigh Futhey
Wolf Trees, Katie Harstock
The Wolf Tree In Film, Katie Harstock
Plague, John Hodgen
I’Ve Read That Lionesses After Miscarriages Occasionally Attempt To Suckle Cornered Prey, Eric Janken
I’Ve Read That Lionesses After Miscarriages Occasionally Attempt To Suckle Cornered Prey, Eric Janken
Birmingham Poetry Review
pp. 93-94