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The impact of perceived stress and coping behaviors on college adjustment for undergraduate students with learning disabilities.
(2002)
In view of comparatively low graduation rates of post-secondary education for students with learning disabilities, the extant literature was reviewed on stress, coping and college adjustment for this population. Undergraduate ...
The reduction of uranium by sulfate-reducing bacteria in the terrestrial subsurface and a pure culture bacterium.
(2002)
The microbial reduction of uranium was investigated in a contaminated aquifer and with a pure culture model organism, Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough. The concentrations of Fe(III), U(VI), nitrate and sulfate were ...
Electric utility deregulation: The case of stranded costs.
(2002)
My dissertation focuses on electric utility deregulation and certain costs that may become unrecoverable (stranded) in a deregulated market. Recent federal and state deregulation has increased competition in the electricity ...
Consciousness and personhood in split-brain patients.
(2002)
In this work I argue that the two hemispheres of a split-brain patient exhibit consciousness and personhood while the patient operates under the conditions of a "Sperry-type" experiment. I am particularly concerned to show ...
An Arabian Night: A one-act chamber opera.
(2002)
This document consists of a complete musical score of a one-act chamber opera based on an original libretto entitled An Arabian Night. The light story is loosely derived from a supplementary tale to 1001 Arabian Nights. ...
Perceptions of female school superintendents.
(2002)
This qualitative study involved female superintendents in the state of Oklahoma. A survey questionnaire designed to gather demographic information was sent to the 48 practicing female superintendents during the 2000--2001 ...
From Bedlam to therapeutic jurisprudence: Are judges adequately prepared to make civil commitment decisions?
(2002)
Historically, mentally ill individuals have been subject to inhumane treatment. However, the late 1700's and early 1800's saw major changes in the manner in which the mentally infirm were both housed and treated. Beginning ...
Joan Tower's "Fascinating Ribbons" for band: Genesis and analysis.
(2002)
The commission story was compiled primarily through interviews between the author and Joan Tower, and between the author and Jack Stamp, a pivotal figure in leading the project to fruition. Tower's compositional procedures ...
Cytosolic delivery of mutant forms of toxin B from Clostridium difficile facilitates characterization of the intracellular activities of large clostridal toxins.
(2002)
Clostridia are gram-positive spore-forming organisms responsible for a variety of diseases in both humans and animals Three species of Clostridia- Clostridium difficile, Clostridium sordellii and Clostridium novyi- produce ...
Multilevel distributed diagnosis and the design of a distributed network fault detection system based on the SNMP protocol.
(2002)
In this thesis, we propose a new distributed diagnosis algorithm using the multilevel paradigm. This algorithm is a generalization of both the ADSD and Hi-ADSD algorithms. We present all details of the design and implementation ...