Chiral auxiliary chemistry is one of the rapidly developing areas in asymmetric synthesis. The advantages in applications of chiral auxiliaries include high reliability, efficiency, and selectivity in asymmetric transformations. ...

With movies and television providing entertainment in almost every American household, reality programming has become an integral part of the marketing industry today. This form of entertainment has influenced viewers and ...

Through this autoethnographic study, I sought to better understand how a novice teacher’s life experiences, both past and present, informed her teaching practices in a culturally and linguistically diverse classroom and ...

Volunteers play a vital role in helping nonprofit organizations operate and achieve success. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to investigate factors that might contribute to developing strong organization–volunteer ...

In many situations, it is of interest to construct a parametric model for a collection of dependent random variables that are not necessarily Gaussian. Methods of constructing multivariate models using both a ...

Dr. Leslie D. Thompson, Dr. Sung Woo Kim, Dr. Christine Z. Alvarado, Dr. Samuel P. Jackson, Dr. Anoosh Rakhshandeh; leslie.thompson@ttu.edu

The objectives of this study were to develop an objective juiciness measurement technique that could be used simultaneously with current objective tenderness evaluation procedures and evaluate juiciness differences in ...

Modernism is a theory exploring the expression of modem materials. Expressionism is characterized as being a part of this theory by challenging the capabilities of structural materials. This theory identifies characteristics ...

Support Vector Machines (SVMs), one of the new techniques for classifications, have been widely used in many application areas. And multiclass SVMs have been popular recently. The algorithm for SVMs is sensitive to the ...

Self-harm within the college population has been growing over the last few decades, as more students are coming to college with diagnosed mental illnesses. Many studies have examined self-harm behaviors among clinical and ...