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X-RAY SPECTRAL ANALYSIS IN X-RAY FLUORESCENCE IMAGING FOR BREAST CANCER DETECTION
(2016)The knowledge of X-ray spectrum plays a major role in exploiting and optimizing the X-ray utilizations, especially in biomedical application fields. Over the past decades, extensive research efforts have been made in better ... -
Xenophilic consumer behavior :
(1980)XCB was measured as the ratio of imports to total consumption within several product categories. Income, dualism, exposure, education, and governmental intervention were used as independent variables in the hypothesized ... -
XIQU LIANGZHE BY WENJING GUO: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY AND PERFORMER’S GUIDE
(2018-05-11)Xiqu Liangzhe for Solo Viola, Wenjing Guo, traditional Chinese musical style and Western musical instrument, translation of playing techniques from traditional Chinese instruments to the viola, and performer’s analysis of ... -
Yalom's Therapeutic Group Factors in Women's Quilting Groups: A Qualitative Study
(2010)Can participation in creative community based groups be therapeutic? The presence of Yalom's therapeutic group factors (Yalom,& Leszcz, 2005) is examined in women's small quilt-making groups. 50 quilt-makers and 5 small ... -
Yalom's Therapeutic Group Factors in Women's Quilting Groups: A Qualitative Study
(2010)Can participation in creative community based groups be therapeutic? The presence of Yalom's therapeutic group factors (Yalom,& Leszcz, 2005) is examined in women's small quilt-making groups. 50 quilt-makers and 5 small ... -
“You just can't save them all”: understanding mathematics teachers’ teaching self-efficacy development through the lens of attribution beliefs
(2021-11-09)The purpose of this study was to explore how mathematics teachers in urban schools serving disadvantaged communities develop their teaching self-efficacy and how teachers’ attribution beliefs were related to their ... -
“You know so and so is not right”: Black women leaders combating mental health stigma within Black churches
(2021-08)Black communities are greatly affected by barriers that negatively impact their mental health. One of the significant barriers is that of stigma. Leaders of Black churches are in a position to shift the narrative. Black ... -
Young children's self-perceptions of competency in literacy during one-on-one tutoring.
(1999)Findings from this study provide evidence of the importance of one-on-one instruction for children considered at-risk for school failure in influencing continued engagement in literacy tasks (reading and writing), the ... -
Young England and conservative social policy /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1972) -
Youth choir periodicals published by the Southern Baptist Convention: 1966-1995.
(1998)This study documents the development of youth choir periodicals published by the Church Music Department of the Baptist Sunday School Board located in Nashville, Tennessee. The first periodical written specifically for ... -
YRJÖ KILPINEN'S SPIELMANNSLIEDER, OPUS 77: A PRACTICAL ANALYSIS FOR TEACHERS AND PERFORMERS
(2009)Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892-1959) wrote over nine hundred works encompassing multiple genres. It was his singular focus on the solo song, however, that established him as a preeminent composer of the genre. Kilpinen ... -
Yuchi social history since World War II: Political symbolism in ethnic identity.
(1998)From allotment to the current day, most scholars assume the various towns that originally formed the Creek polity have become assimilated into a single homogenous Creek culture. The Yuchi community has maintained a separate ... -
Zeeman effect in the microwave spectra of free radicals /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1967) -
Zeolite-Catalyzed Surface Chemistry in Alkane Isomerization and Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Catalysis
(2013)Zeolite catalysts are eminently vital to production of liquid transportation fuels and commodity chemicals. In each particular application, the surface reactions catalyzed by the zeolite determine its productivity. It is ... -
Zeta Integrals of GSp(4) via Bessel Models
(2019-05-10)Using the Piatetski-Shapiro theory of zeta integrals via Bessel models, we explicitly calculate L-factors of irreducible admissible representations of GSp(4, F), where F is a non-archimedean local field of characteristic zero. -
Zombie Miners: Life, Death, and Reanimation in the Wide Rural Rust Belt
(2022-12-16)Over the last decade, activists and mining historians have used the concept of zombie mines to show that extractive sites have social and environmental afterlives that beckon after closure. They manifest in toxic water, ... -
Zr-MOFs for Hydrolysis Reactions: Computational Evaluation of Interactions, Kinetics, and Molecular Accessibility
(2024-05-11)Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous crystalline solids that present as promising instruments for the removal of chemical warfare agents (CWAs). Owing to their remarkable porosities and large surface areas, ... -
Ꮵ ᏣᎳᎩ (TSI Tsalagi), I am Cherokee: understanding contemporary art of the Cherokee diaspora
(2021-05-14)Questions of diaspora and cultural identity drive my analysis of the work and lives of four contemporary ᏣᎳᎩ (Tsalagi), Cherokee, artists: Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Nation), Luzene Hill (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), ...