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Creator:: Halawa, Adel Mahmoud
Abstract:: In the problem of testing the median using a random sample from a certain distribution, and if no other parametric family is suggested, the t-test is known to be the optimal procedure when this distribution is normal. If the sample appears to be non-normal, one has the choice either to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Adel M. Halawa for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics

Creator:: El Baden, Bahia Mahmoud
Abstract:: The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of peer presence upon the health-related physical fitness test scores of college students. A total of 312 undergraduate college students, 156 males and 156 females, 18 through 29 years of age, randomly selected from the physical education activity...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF BAHIA MAHMOUD EL BADEN for

Creator:: Ecklund, Denise J.
Abstract:: Traditional database management systems have been deemed unsuitable for use in the Computer Aided Engineering environment Object-oriented data models with project management features have been proposed as an alternative. The Distributed Hypothetical Storage System is intended to serve as the underlying storage mechanism for an object-oriented data model. The storage...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Server for Engineering Design Data with Versions Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Fred M. Tonge

Creator:: Edemenang, Effiong James Akpan
Abstract:: A new algorithm, the Horizontal and Vertical Algorithm, for on-line detection of deadlocks in distributed computer systems, is presented. Two protocols for implementing the algorithm are given. The first protocol, the centralized protocol, is based on the assumption that one site in the network acts as the controller for global...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: develop an M/M/z queueing model to measure the request response time of the algorithm. This is done by a

Creator:: Chalker-Scott, Linda
Abstract:: The leaching of water soluble phenolic compounds from cold stressed Rhododendron leaves was found to be a reliable indicator of tissue damage. In sublethally stressed leaf tissues, more and novel phenolic compounds appeared and were hypothesized to be precursors of cell wall components such as lignin and suberin. Subsequent radiolabeling...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: water at pH 6.0 (1 x 10"2 M) and pH 7.5 (2.725 x 10"4 M) 236 Al-2. Absorbance4g5 of ethanol

Creator:: Goshayeshi, Ali
Abstract:: An experimental study is described in which time-average local heat transfer coefficients were obtained for arrays of horizontal tubes immersed in a hot fluidized bed. Spatial-averaged heat transfer coefficients, computed from local values, are also reported. Refractory particles with surface mean diameters of 2.14 mm and 3.23 mm were fluidized...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Drs. G. M. Reistad, M. N. L Narasimhan, and K. A. Holleman for serving on my doctoral committee. I

Creator:: Okoye, Peter Iloabuchi
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to identify the competencies essential for effective performance as a rural public health sanitarian in developing countries. The need to identify rural sanitarian competencies in developing countries is closely related to the World Health Organization's goal of "Health for all by the year...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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