This study investigates how four urban school districts, serving low socioeconomic status (SES) student populations, define, prepare teachers for, and implement integration of computer technology into the K-12 classroom ...

This qualitative research study was designed to follow-up with ten participants in a relapse prevention program at an inpatient psychiatric unit with a diagnosis of major depression for the purpose of determining their ...

Construction worker safety is normally a construction activity in the United States, even though there is an emerging body of literature discussing the positive effects of considering safety earlier in the construction ...

The mechanical properties of unaged and aged constituent materials for solid oxide fuel cells were evaluated using microindentation, plate tensile, four-point bend, ball on ring and pressure on ring tests. The Vickers ...

Microcredit programs are of great interest to economists and policymakers because of their potential for reducing poverty, particularly among women. The first chapter mainly investigates the effectiveness aspect of microcredit ...

The unveiling of small RNA (sRNA)-mediated gene regulatory pathways has profoundly shaped our understanding of the complexity of gene regulation. In eukaryotes, sRNAs have been found to control cellular metabolism, growth ...

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a wireless network that uses multi-hop peerto- peer routing instead of static network infrastructure to provide network connectivity. MANETs have applications in rapidly deployed and ...

The objective of this dissertation is to present a modeling and simulation methodology for MEMS devices and identify and understand the associated nonlinearities due to large deflections, electric actuation, impacts, and ...

Laser sintering (LS) is an additive manufacturing process which uses laser surface heating to induce consolidation of powdered materials. This work investigates some of the process-structure-property relationships for LS ...

Jellyfish have inhabited this planet for millions of years and are the oldest known metazoans that swim using muscles. They are found in freshwater sources and in oceans all over the world. Over millions of years of ...