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Development of a Multiscale Numerical Model with Two Human Pulmonary Health Applications
(2018-12-01)
Determination of the site-specific dosimetry and clearance of deposited aerosols in the human airways is critical in health risk assessment studies such as toxicant exposure evaluation and inhaled medication delivery with ...
Adoption of Learning Management System technology by fire service instructors
(2018-05)
This study explored the adoption of learning management system (LMS) technology by fire service instructors. The research identified what attributes of LMS technology lead to the adoption of the technology. This study used ...
Effect of liquid nitrogen in packaging and formulation concepts in acid foods
(2018-12)
Chapter 1: The objective of the research was to eliminate paneling of the PET bottles due to hot filling. BBQ sauce was hot-filled at 54°C (130°F) in plastic PET, 567 g (20 oz) bottles. The PET bottles paneled, or were ...
Home healthcare using ubiquitous computing and robot technologies
(2018-12)
The rapid increase of senior population worldwide is challenging the existing healthcare and support systems. Recently, smart home environments are utilized for ubiquitous health monitoring, allowing patients to stay in ...
Distribution and Interactions of Turtle Acanthocephalans in Two Species of Freshwater Snails
(2018-12-01)
Acanthocephalans are an understudied group of parasites, with only 8% of their life cycles know. Nevertheless, acanthocephalans are a very complex group of organisms, parasitizing all classes of vertebrates from terrestrial, ...
Revealing and resolving contradictory ways to reduce selection bias to enhance the validity of causal inferences from non-randomized longitudinal data
(2018-07)
The purpose of the current study is to understand the mechanism of selection bias in nonrandomized studies by exploring possible reasons for inconsistent and biased results between the simple gain scores and the residual ...
Phase Diagrams and Quantum Phase Transitions in Lattice-Confined Antiferromagnetic Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
(2018-12-01)
A spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined in optical lattices has attracted much attention for its abilities to systematically study, verify, and optimize condensed matter models. In this dissertation, I present ...
From the sanctuary to the classroom: The role of black church partnerships in supporting the educational achievement for African American students
(2018-05)
Education reform efforts are consistently being implemented in public schools across the United States to support students success. There is an increased need however for improvement regarding the educational achievement ...
Relationship between reformed science teaching and learning beliefs and classroom practice: A two-part study
(2018-05)
Research examining the relationship between teachers' beliefs and classroom practice has been on the rise. While several researchers (Buehl & Beck, 2015; Fang, 1996; Pajares, 1992) have examined the relationship between ...
Empirically validating the measures and interventions of numeracy development (MIND): Remediation packet to increase basic math fluency scores
(2018-05)
With the majority of fourth grade students failing to achieve proficiency in math, educational researchers need to focus on class-wide and group interventions that can be efficiently and effectively used by general education ...