The objective of the research presented in this thesis is to develop, implement,
and demonstrate the utility of an n-sheet, state-space alternating-current thin-film
electroluminescent (ACTFEL) device model. In this mo ...
On New Year's Eve 1993, there was little indication
that popular President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was about
to take a monumental fall. Mexico was in the midst of
unprecedented prosperity. The world's oldest ruling
...
A fully integrated CMOS latched comparator is presented for use as a wake-up circuit that is attached to an RF energy harvester in a battery free wireless sensor network. The system consumes less than 36nA static current ...
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) have received considerable attention over the last ten years because CNCs can be produced from renewable materials such as straw, wood, cotton, and sea animals (tunicates). CNCs are slender ...
Microchannel process technology (MPT) offers several advantages to the field of nanomanufacturing: 1) improved process control over very short time intervals owing to shorter diffusional distances; and 2) reduced reacto ...
In response to the events on September the Eleventh, various media attempted to make sense of the seemingly radical altered political landscape. Comic books, though traditionally framed as low brow pulp, were no exceptio ...
In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous
cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically
"discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting rel ...
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact a narrative reflecting team experience has on counselor self-efficacy. Through a quasi-experimental design, the use of a narrative reflecting team supervision model w ...
The number of students enrolling in post-secondary institutions in the U.S. has slowly been rising over the last 10 years, yet gaps continue to exist in terms of who attends college and persists through graduation. Minor ...
Although endothermy is one of the most significant
evolutionary developments in the vertebrates, its origins
among extinct taxa have traditionally been difficult to
determine. Endothermy is primarily an attribute of t ...
Effective and sustainable fisheries management not only depends on identifying and defining stocks (fundamental unit of management), but also on having knowledge of factors influencing the abundance, distribution and con ...
Natality of black-tailed deer in McDonald State Forest was determined by examination of 147 reproductive tracts. Yearlings collected from November of 1968 to May of 1970 had an average of 0.79 corpora lutea per doe, and ...
According to Blackwell, Miniard, and Engel (2001), "[c]ulture has a profound
effect on why and how people buy and consume products and services" (p. 320). In
the present study, Hofstede's classifications of national cu ...
This dissertation consists of three essays that evaluate various types of health care policies from the social welfare perspective. Chapter 1 introduces the main ideas and framework of this dissertation. Chapter 2 evalua ...
The image of Native Americans in the United States has changed through
the passage of time. Part of this change is directly related to the representation of
their cultures in a museum setting and the inception of cultu ...
In fulfilling their traditional roles as leaders in their communities, American Indian women are often at the core of American Indian resistance and struggles for liberation. Native women have a long history of assuming ...
The importance of pollinators in native and managed landscapes is well known, and recent interest is directed towards investigating the role of native bees as providers of pollination ecosystem services. Uncertainty abo ...
This study identified new compounds with pest control activities. The two
sources of candidates that were followed here were the main heartwood extract of
Alaska Yellow Cedar (AYC) constituents and several semi-synthet ...