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Understanding Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Influences for Smoking in Multiunit Housing
(2018-08)
This study explored some underlying reasons to why some smokers choose to smoke indoors as well as some of the factors that contributed to this decision. In addition, this study looked at what smokers know about environmental ...
Population dynamics and long-term impacts of the invasive zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) in a subtropical reservoir
(2018)
As humans continue to advance through the Anthropocene, we find that among other impacts, the rate at which species expand their range and are transplanted into new environments continues to increase. As the frequency of ...
Investigation of Tethered System for Creating Artificial Gravity
(2018)
Interplanetary journeys are long; taking anywhere between 6 months to a few years. Studies performed with astronauts in the various space missions have provided insights on adverse effects of microgravity on the human body. ...
Provenance of Permian eolian and related strata in the North American midcontinent: Tectonic and climatic controls on sediment dispersal in western tropical Pangea
(2018-02-01)
The Permian marks a time of substantial climatic and tectonic changes in the late Paleozoic. Gondwanan glaciation collapsed after its earliest Permian acme, aridification affected the equatorial region, and monsoonal ...
The Effects of Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage in Trained Females Following Repeated Sprint Activity
(2018-08)
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the use of a sprinting protocol to consistently generate exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) using an active female population, and to observe how jumping metrics and ...
“SCIENCE IS MAGIC THAT WORKS”: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE EARLY WORK OF KURT VONNEGUT, 1952-1963
(2018-05-11)
Kurt Vonnegut’s writing helped to push the boundaries of our conventional understanding of twentieth-century American literature through his inclusion of science fiction themes in many of his works and his poignant discussions ...
Application of Artificial Neural Networks, Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, and Multilevel Logistic Models in a Supervised Learning Environment to Investigate Differences in Classification Performance when Predicting College Enrollment
(2018-05)
The use of data mining algorithms for applied practice is becoming commonplace in many industries. The application of these models to the domain of educational data and practice could provide significant gains in understanding ...
The Evolution of Gender Equality in Modern Iran Undergraduate
(2018)
Earlier this fall in Iran, there was a bit of uproar as the Iranian football team faced Syria in Iran. While women were initially able to purchase tickets, they were barred from entering the game and left outside to watch ...
The Way of Death: Abortion’s Path to Criminalization During the Middle Ages Undergraduate
(2018)
A lightning rod of controversy since the Middle Ages, abortion has both been condemned as the “way of death” and championed as a tool of female liberation (Elsakkers, “Reading Between the Lines” 468). Current debates over ...
Chondroinductive Biomaterials for Stem Cell Differentiation
(2018)
Cartilage injury, which can lead to arthritis, currently lacks any effective treatment, and so the design of chondroinductive biomaterials holds a compelling appeal for the field of regenerative medicine. Although ...