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Stochastic Life Cycle Cost Analysis for Sustainable Pavement Preservation Treatments
(2012)
Classic engineering economic theory was developed to furnish the analyst a tool to
Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
(2012)
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast is widely recognized as the seminal work of the English composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Among his compositional output, this choral cantata launched his career as a musician and composer of ...
PUBLIC SCHOOL BOND ELECTIONS: AN ASSESSMENT
(2012)
School bonds provide an important mechanism of financing school capital projects. Bonds are paid back via future property taxes, which may or may not be associated with an increase in tax rates. Bond issues require voter ...
Religious Coping in a Sample of Older Adults
(2012)
The population of older adults is growing, and will continue to grow in the United States (Administration on Aging, 2003). Thus, the need to understand the experiences of the elderly and to intervene appropriately is ...
Optimal Spatiotemporal Reduced Order Modeling for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
(2012)
Proposed in this dissertation is a novel reduced order modeling (ROM) framework called optimal spatiotemporal reduced order modeling (OPSTROM) for nonlinear dynamical systems. The OPSTROM approach is a data-driven methodology ...
Meeting the Culturally-Related Academic Needs of American Indian Students: A Case Study of Elva John Middle School
(2012)
Many issues (e.g. impact of cultural hegemony, cultural mismatch,
SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, ELECTROCHEMISTRY, AND SPECTROELECTROCHEMISTRY OF GROUP 8 METALLOPORPHYRIN COMPLEXES
(2012)
This dissertation describes the investigations of nitric oxide (NO) and possible NO donors with group 8 metalloporphyrins.
Investigating basic characteristics of turbulence in channel flows using Lagrangian concepts
(2012)
Many examples of turbulent motion of particles in nature can be better perceived through the concept of backwards turbulent dispersion. Some examples include pollutants in atmosphere or oceans reaching populated human or ...
Presencia y voces de escritores chino-latinoamericanos
(2012)
My dissertation focuses on the works of four Latin American writers of Chinese origin: Regino Pedroso from Cuba, Siu Kam Wen from Peru, Óscar Wong from Mexico, and Carlos Francisco Changmarín from Panama. I discuss how ...
Meeting the Culturally-Related Academic Needs of American Indian Students: A Case Study of Elva John Middle School
(2012)
Many issues (e.g. impact of cultural hegemony, cultural mismatch,