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A Building Block Apporach to Port Security
(2011)
With the ever present threat to commerce, both politically and economically, technological innovations provide a means to secure the transportation infrastructure that will allow efficient and uninterrupted freight-flow ...
RELIGIOUS IDENTITY/SEXUAL ORIENTATION IDENTITY CONFLICT AMONG SAME-SEX ATTRACTED INDIVIDUALS: IMPACT ON IDENTITY DISTRESS, INTERNALIZED HOMONEGATIVITY, RELATIONSHIP AND SEXUAL SATISFACTION
(2017-05-12)
Regardless of specific practice, religious and spiritual identities play important roles in the lives of billions of individuals around the globe. Many struggle to define their religious/spiritual identity throughout the ...
Forgotten Master: Leone Giraldoni and the Pursuit of Singing Artistry
(2011)
The Italian baritone Leone Giraldoni (1824-1897) was one of the most prominent operatic performers of the nineteenth century. His singing style and complete artistry made him a leading choice of the major opera composers ...
The representations of p-adic fields associated to elliptic curves
(2015)
The goal of this dissertation is to find the irreducible, admissible representation
of GL(2; F) attached to an elliptic curve E over a p-adic field F. Associated
to E is a 2-dimensional complex representation of the ...
Construcciones estilísticas y estructurales en el neopolicial mexicano del siglo veinte y veintiuno
(2016-05-13)
In this dissertation I analyze the novels Días de combate (1976) by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, La Mara (2004) by Rafael Ramírez Heredia and Yodo (2003) by Juan Hernández Luna as paradigms of the changes that the “neo-detective” ...
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SYNTHETIC SCHEME FOR VINYL DIETHERS AND SYNTHESIS OF PRODRUGS FOR TARGETED DELIVERY AND VISIBLE/NIR LIGHT-TRIGGERED RELEASE
(2014)
Tumor specific drug delivery has become increasingly interesting in cancer therapy, as the use of chemotherapeutics is often limited due to severe side effects. Targeted chemotherapy for cancer treatment offers a great ...
Climate Change and Human Rights: Creating Norms to Govern Earth's Atmosphere
(2012)
Global climate change is one of the most pressing threats to humanity in the 21st century. Not only is evidence of this warming unequivocal, scientific consensus holds that it is the result of human activity. If left ...
DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE IN-SITU FATIGUE SENSOR FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING OF HIGHWAY BRIDGES
(2010)
Fatigue damage to bridges has been identified as a threat to bridge safety. Fatigue cracks usually occur at stresses lower than the anticipated design stress levels. Unlike yielding or corrosion, fatigue cracks are seldom ...
The effects of the loss of the middle school team planning period on student discipline, grades, achievement
(2012)
The middle school concept provides recommendations for schools that teach adolescents. One of the components of this philosophy is the common team planning period, which is in addition to the teacher's individual planning ...
THE PERCUSSION QUARTET: A CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING AND PERFORMANCE GUIDE OF SIX SELECTED WORKS
(2012)
Percussion quartets are the most abundant compositions in the genre of