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CARBON-WATER COUPLING OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY
(2019-05-10)
Carbon and water cycles are two fundamental biophysical processes in terrestrial ecosystems. Rain use efficiency (RUE), defined as the ratio of ecosystem productivity to precipitation (PPT), and water use efficiency (WUE), ...
Collaborative Training With a More Experienced Partner: Remediating Low Pretraining Self-Efficacy in Complex Skill Acquisition
(Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2007-12-01)
Objective: This study examined the effectiveness of collaborative training for individuals with low pretraining self-efficacy versus individuals with high pretraining selfefficacy regarding the acquisition of a complex ...
Polarimetric Measurements of Ice Pellets and Aggregated Snow
(2017-12-15)
The recent upgrade of the National Weather Service WSR-88D radar network to polarimetric capabilities provides the abundance of information about the precipitation microphysics. Even with the plethora of polarimetric ...
Profiles of career-aged keyboard students: Attitudes, preferences, and demographics.
(2006)
This study sought to determine profiles for career-aged adult keyboard students (30-55 years) based on motivation. Perspectives concerning student attitudes and opinions regarding teacher qualities and traits, preferred ...
Vestiges of glory: Iraq's universities and female students in the midst of tyranny, sanctions and war.
(2006)
This historical dissertation examines the intersectionality of sanctions, war and autocratic rule as it manifested itself on Iraqi university campuses and, more specifically, the impact on female students. While much has ...
Ada Lovelace: First Computer Programmer
(2015)
In Ada Lovelace's translation of one of the first introductions to Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine," she included at length analyses of the significance and potential of Babbage's machine. These explanations, totaling ...
"New to Site and Needing Advice": A Content Analysis Examining Role Strain and Social Support in an Online Support Group for Childless Stepmothers
(2008)
The purpose of the current study was to identify types of role strain and social supportive behaviors utilized within on online social support group for childless stepmothers. A contents analysis of sixty-two message sets ...
The Presence, Nature, and Impact of Caregiver Stress and Self-Care in Informal Caregivers for Veterans with Alzheimer's or Other Dementia
(2015-08-14)
This preliminary research explores the relationships between caregiver stress, self-care, and overall quality of life (QOL) in adult informal caregivers providing care for veterans with dementia. Demographic and care-related ...
Whose desires are they? The politics of subversion in works by E. M. Forster, Nathalie Sarraute, and Jean Rhys.
(2006)
This dissertation examines the ways in which we read representations of the feminine subject in works that have been deemed complicit in strengthening hierarchies of gender and/or race. Building upon feminist critics' ...
THE (PASSIVE) VIOLENCE OF HARMONY AND BALANCE: LIVED EXPERIENCED OF JAVANESE WOMEN WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES
(2014-05-09)
This study is an examination of Javanese women’s lived experience with Type 2 diabetes, an exploration of the ways these women maintain interactions with family members and society and how they adapt diabetes management ...