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MODERN INNOVATIONS IN AMERICAN TRUMPET MOUTHPIECE DESIGN
(2014-05-09)
In the early part of the 20th century, technological advancements in machinery allowed the production of trumpet mouthpieces to become more consistent than ever before. Vincent Bach and his contemporaries improved upon ...
REVEALING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT ELECTRICITY MARKET UNDERLYING POWER SYSTEM USING POWER SYSTEM PRINCIPLES AND PUBLISHED MARKET RESULTS
(2014)
In this dissertation we provide a novel estimation framework designed and structured on duality theory for estimation of some key parameters in electricity markets. Specifically, the framework uses financial transmission ...
HiMean: A HyGene Approach to Semantic Analysis in a Medical Decision-Making Task
(2014)
This dissertation makes an exploratory comparison between two semantics models, Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and a newly introduced HiMean model based on the HyGene architecture, in a medical decision-making context. ...
Tolkien's Faerian Drama: Origins and Valedictions
(2014)
I attempt to define the characteristics of Tolkien’s concept of “Faërian Drama,” and how it differs from the medieval dream-vision, through the way it changes the lives of dreamers such as Scrooge, the Pearl poet, and Smith ...
Unprecedented high-resolution view of bacterial operon architecture revealed by RNA sequencing
(2014-07-08)
We analyzed the transcriptome of Escherichia coli K-12 by strand-specific RNA sequencing at single-nucleotide resolution during steady-state (logarithmic-phase) growth and upon entry into stationary phase in glucose minimal ...
Some Classes of Jacobi Matrices and Schrödinger Operators
(2014)
This dissertation addresses two classes of Jacobi matrices and Schrödinger operators. First, we consider Jacobi matrices and Schrödinger operators that are reflectionless on an interval. We give a systematic development ...
The Influence of Aging on Cardiovascular Measures After an Acute Bout of Resistance Exercise
(2014)
As individuals age, substantial physiological changes occur. Most notably there is a decrease in muscle mass known as sarcopenia and an increase in arterial stiffness. In order to attenuate declines in muscle mass, ...
Perfectionism, the Thin Ideal, and Disordered Eating: Does Internalized Misogyny Play a Role?
(2014-03-31)
Research has consistently shown a relationship between both perfectionism and the internalization of the thin ideal with disordered eating behavior. The relationship between internalized misogyny and disordered eating ...
THE ROLE OF IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT IN A RESOURCE DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP
(2014)
Venture capitalists (VCs) perform valuable services to entrepreneurs and to the economy as a whole by accelerating innovation through the funding of high potential, nascent ventures. The operational duties of a VC are ...
Denying What Workers Believe Are Unethical Workplace Requests: Do Workers Use Moral, Operational, or Policy Justifications Publicly?
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2014-02-01)
This message-production experiment demonstrates workers’ tendency to use organizational policy justifications when publicly denying what they privately believe are unethical requests. Working adults (N = 234) responded to ...