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SURVEY OF CATALYST AND REDUCTANT EFFECTS ON OXORHENIUM CATALYZED DEOXYDEHYDRATION OF GLYCOLS
(2015-02-06)
Sustainable and renewable carbon sources are of great interest for long term succession of humankind. The sugars and polyols derived from cellulosic biomass offer such a sustainable feedstock considering cellulosic biomass ...
CONSEQUENCES OF HABITAT TRANSITIONS ON LOCOMOTIVE TRAIT DIVERSIFICATION AT THE MICRO- AND MACRO-EVOLUTIONARY SCALES
(2015-05-08)
Contemporarily evolving systems provide a unique opportunity to characterize the direction, pattern, and rates of phenotypic change among multiple species. The damming of streams to create reservoirs results in a change ...
Study of Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticles
(2012)
Enhancement of molecular fluorescence is of great interest due to the widespread popularity of fluorescence-based detection techniques available today. Although fluorescence-based detection is considered to be more sensitive ...
Lived Experiences of High School Graduates Identified with Specific Learning Disabilities, Their Families, and Their Teachers
(2016-12-16)
ABSTRACT
The successful completion of high school is a goal of many Americans. Graduation rates of students identified with Specific Learning Disabilities has been steadily rising over the last decade, yet this population ...
J/psi meson production in association with a W boson: Cross section ratio measurement with the ATLAS detector using 8 TeV pp data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
(2016-05-13)
The production mechanism of charmonium particles in hadronic collisions is not fully understood and is an active area of research. These mechanisms can be studied by examining the associated production of charmonium particles ...
Essays in Corporate Governance
(2011)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the role and importance of corporate governance in public and private firms. Chapter 1, investigates the role of governance characteristics in determining ...
Building Teacher Competence through Modeling and Practice in an Instructional Coaching Session
(2017)
This study aims to understand how instructional coaching supports novice teachers by examining how to build teacher competence effectively. Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002) as the conceptual framework, ...
Niños, niñas y adolescentes en situación de calle: El cine como articulador de discursos paradójicos y segregación espacial y de género en América Latina
(2017-12)
Niños, niñas y adolescentes en situación de calle: El cine como articulador de discursos paradójicos y segregación espacial y de género en América Latina es un estudio comparativo que explora la representación de niños, ...
Computational Electromagnetics Applied to Scattering Observed by Polarimetric Weather Radar
(2015-12-18)
The primary topics of this dissertation are issues existing in the current ensemble scattering procedures. These procedures are failing to quantitatively reproduce polarimetric signatures from resolution volumes filled ...
FUNDAMENTAL HYDRAULIC FRACTURING CONCEPTS FOR POORLY CONSOLIDATED FORMATIONS
(2012)
This dissertation examines -by means of the discrete element method- the mechanisms that govern hydraulic fracturing in poorly consolidated formations. The motivation to take on this project was the widely reported ...