This dissertation reveals the origins of deep-impurity and near band-edge optical transitions in h-BN, the temperature and layer number dependence of energy band gap of multiple-layer h-BN, and the temperature dependence ...

Pathophysiology, the study of disease, is a foundational subject within the curriculum of professional nursing programs. Nursing students in a pathophysiology course in 2008 reported difficulty discerning salient and ...

First Recital Sonata in C major, K. 296 -- Mozart Rumanian Folk Dances -- Bartok Suite in A minor, Op. 10 -- Sinding Second Recital Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101 -- Shostakovich Concerto No. 3 in B ...

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 ...

Home-based counselors experience demands, obstacles, and opportunities not present for office-based counselors. The literature reveals that many counselors do not feel adequately prepared to conduct therapy outside of the ...

Ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation experiments are conducted using velocity data from the National Weather Service Radar 88-D and a Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar to determine how two different ...

The standards-based educational accountability and its corollary quality assurance practices have increasingly been integrated in education in recent years. This development has however been criticized as having unintended ...

When people feel like their relationship may be threatened by a rival, they engage in competition with the rival (Buss,1988). Previous work has found that women are more jealous of and guard their partners more from women ...

The mother-daughter relationship goes through many transitions and changes as the daughter grows up. In particular, when the daughter transitions out of the home and geographical distance is increased between mother and ...

This study investigated resource allocation abilities in persons with aphasia (PWA) in the presence and absence of competing stimuli across a series of experimental tasks that involved identifying and selecting single ...