• Genetic Mapping of Mice Derived from An F2 Intercross Population 

  Wang, Jijia (2015-08-21)

  Genetic mapping based on the genetic distance plays an important role in research fields, such as biomedicine, biochemistry and agricultural science. Especially when the whole genome have not been sequenced, genetic mapping ...

• Vírgenes, ninfomaníacas, brujas y travestis: el discurso subversivo de Carmen Boullosa. 

  Acevedo, Ana S (2015-08-03)

  La literatura mexicana contemporánea escrita por mujeres cada vez con más auge se ha ido integrando al mundo académico e internacional. Carmen Boullosa es una de las escritoras que ha logrado internacionalizarse con su ...

• THE EFFECTS OF PAST FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE ON FIRMS’ SHORT- TERM AND LONG-TERM MARKETING STRATEGIES 

  Wang, Xinchun (2015-08-26)

  When firms experience unfavorable financial performance, how do they respond? Using a resource-advantage theoretic lens, this study examines how past firm performance affects firms’ future marketing strategies. In particular, ...

• Perfluorinated Compound Residues in Biota Collected near Barksdale Air Force Base, Bossier City, Louisiana, USA 

  Lanza, Heather A; 0000-0001-9132-1499 (2015-08-07)

  Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), upon their listing as emerging chemicals of concern by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), have been the foci of many studies considering toxicity, occurrence, and persistence in ...

• Adaptive Solar Power Harvesting Building Skin 

  Nedunuri, Jesse V (2015-08-26)

  The world is and has always strived to have sufficient energy for all its universal needs and it’s been a long fashion that the energy generated is mostly from the non-renewable resources/fossil fuels to various forms of ...

• Role of large scale motions on passive scalar transport in a turbulent channel 

  Dharmarathne, Suranga (2015-08-31)

  The prominence of passive scalar transport in turbulent flows is accentuated by the number of applications and the fundamental significance of the problem. The concept of organized motions has provided a new view point to ...

• A QUANTITATIVE MODEL FOR MEASURING COMMUNITY RESILIENCY TO HURRICANES 

  Cui, Yuepeng (2015-08-21)

  Hurricanes could cause extensive damage to local economies, and in some cases recovery may take years. Hurricane impact affects both community resources and supply chains, it could disrupt business processes and activities, ...

• COLLABORATIVE NARRATIVES BETWEEN SPANISH HERITAGE AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS: UNDERSTANDING ASPECT SELECTION THROUGH TWO TYPES OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK 

  Valentin, Laura; 0000-0002-8392-000X (2015-08-26)

  This dissertation aims to present a better understanding of Spanish mixed classes—learning contexts shared by heritage language learners (HLLs) and foreign language learners (FLLs)—by exploring both (1) the immediate and ...

• The GAAP Lock-Out Effect of Worldwide Corporate Profits and Firm Value 

  Furner, Zhan Zhang; 0000-0002-2927-1838 (2015-08-21)

  Prior studies have attributed the lock-out effect of permanently reinvested foreign earnings (PRE) designation to cash tax deferral and accounting expense deferral associated with PRE designation. Because PRE designation ...

• Injectivity and Gorenstein-Injectivity Under Faithfully Flat Ring Extensions 

  Koksal, Fatih (2015-08-24)

  A main object of study in algebraic geometry is a quotient of a polynomial ring. Faithfully flat extensions of such rings also have applications in algebraic geometry and play an important role in commutative algebra. ...

• An Investigation of the Effects of Emotional Visual Aids on Learning Performance and Mental Effort in Online Health Education 

  Chung, Sungwon; 0000-0002-3520-6573 (2015-08-21)

  The purpose of this study was to investigate how emotional visual aids influence learning performance and mental effort in online health education. This study is guided by the limited capacity model of motivated mediated ...

• Analysis, Design and Optimization of Binary to BCD converters 

  Rangisetti, Srirathan (2015-08-17)

  Decimal information handling applications have developed exponentially as of late subsequently expanding the need to have equipment support for decimal math. Binary to BCD converter is the basic block of decimal digit ...

• An Investigation of Factors Influencing the Bioavailability of Silver Nanoparticles within a Terrestrial System 

  Pappas, Sara A; 0000-0002-1870-1126 (2015-08-25)

  Due to the high reactivity and antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles, they are increasingly being added to consumer products and appliances. With this increased use, however, there will be a resultant increase ...

• More Human Than Human: American Monsters 

  Fine, Kerry; 0000-0002-9001-4152 (2015-08-21)

  Monsters disrupt. They stomp, fly, slither, and saunter through our stories in ways, which due to the spectacular nature of monsters, cannot go unremarked. Monsters are the harbingers of cultural disruption. Contemporary ...

• Significance of karyotypic evolution in phyllostomid bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) as revealed by chromosome painting 

  Caio, Cibele G S; 0000-0002-3112-0000 (2015-08-21)

  The family Phyllostomidae represents a lineage of Chiroptera marked by unprecedented morphological/ecological diversity among mammalian families and by extensive chromosomal reorganization in several taxa. The history of ...

• Estimating genetic boundaries with the application of multiple operational criteria 

  Parlos, Julie Anne (2015-08-25)

  Since Linnaeus (1758), scientists have organized and classified animals into groups based on morphological characteristics and geographic origins into taxa. With the advent of new techniques in molecular biology, karyology, ...

• Exploring the Relationships between Information Technology Governance and Project Governance and Their Impacts on Project Performance: An Empirical Study 

  Sirisomboonsuk, Pinyarat (2015-08-25)

  Nowadays many organizations have interest in project management as projects are part of their businesses. The success of projects affects the success of their businesses. In order to improve project performance, many ...

• Motivating senior staff in the hospitality industry 

  Ann, Sae Hya; 0000-0001-8635-9273 (2015-08-20)

  The reduced birth rate and aging population in the United States has resulted in a shortage of younger workers and a growing number of senior employees in the hospitality industry. In this context, the reliance on senior ...

• The Burlesque and Other Tropes: Andragogical Content Knowledge in the 2014 OSHA Oil and Gas Safety and Health Conference 

  Martinez, Mario A; 0000-0003-4244-2985 (2015-08-25)

  This investigation focuses on what Roessger (2012) has described as the kinds of andragogy held in “hotel rooms across the country,” as foundational ways of educating industrial workers about ergonomics (p. 377). While ...

• “Freed Vietnamese Have Her to Thank:” Khuc Minh Tho, the FVPPA, and the Use of Grassroots Diplomacy in the Release, Immigration, and Resettlement of Vietnamese Re-Education Camp Prisoners, 1977-2011 

  Martin, Frances Paige; 0000-0003-2928-3529 (2015-08-07)

  This thesis examines the creation and operations of, the Families of Vietnamese Political Prisoners Association (FVPPA) at the conclusion of the Second Indochina War. In addition to highlighting the activities of the FVPPA, ...

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