Search results
-
-
Title
-
Modeling the durability of structural components in aerospace and medical industries
-
Author
-
Shaik, Sameer
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Mechanical engineering
-
Description
-
This dissertation presents applications of the finite element method in studying the durability of components used in aerospace (composites) and medical (hip implants) industries. In the first part of the dissertation the response of a fiber-reinf...
-
-
Title
-
Optimal purchasing strategy for bandwidth: A buyer's perspective
-
Author
-
Vergara, Frances
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Computer science, Business
-
Description
-
In today's burgeoning business environments, data frenetically pulses through massive interconnected networks as firms create, compile, and disseminate vast amounts of information. Organizations need to acquire the bandwidth that allows them to ef...
-
-
Title
-
Risk Minimizing Portfolio Optimization and Hedging with Conditional Value-at-Risk
-
Author
-
Li, Jing
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Mathematics
-
Description
-
This thesis looks at the problem of finding the optimal investment strategy of a self-financing portfolio in a dynamic complete market setting so that the risk measured by Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) is minimized under the condition that the ...
-
-
Title
-
The Economic Impact of Spatial Income Inequality
-
Author
-
Li, Huiping
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
City planning, Economics, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
-
Description
-
Spatial income inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income across communities. This study broadens the concept to include residential segregation, central city-suburban income disparity, and government fragmentation. Combining the comp...
-
-
Title
-
Transit Riders and Access to Bus Service: A Neighborhood Analysis
-
Author
-
Wells, Kirstin
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
City planning, Public administration, Transportation--Planning
-
Description
-
Intra-jurisdictional delivery of publicly provided services often results in observable differences in service levels that vary by spatial subunit (neighborhood). These variations are related to the socio-demographic characteristics of neighborhoo...
-
-
Title
-
The relationship of elementary teachers' years of teaching experience, perceptions of occupational stress, self-acceptance, and challenging student behavior to burnout symptoms in the United States and Germany.
-
Author
-
Ullrich, Annette
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Special education, Education, Elementary, Educational psychology
-
Description
-
In the United States, stress and burnout have been identified as contributors to the shortage and attrition of both general and special education teachers (Edmonson, 2006). In Germany, intense political debate has been related to premature retirem...
-
-
Title
-
The impact of police agency size on crime clearance rates
-
Author
-
Kennedy, William
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Public administration
-
Description
-
The impact of police agency size on the ability of those agencies to deliver necessary police services is a question critical to many policy makers as they attempt to determine the best and most efficient manner to provide police services to their...
-
-
Title
-
The role of the dopaminergic system in the regulation of physical activity in mice
-
Author
-
Knab, Amy
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Molecular biology, Genetics, Physiology
-
Description
-
Physical activity (PA) is important to human health, and the genetic and biological regulating factors of physical activity are only beginning to be understood. The dopamine (DA) system has been shown to regulate motivation, and locomotor behavior...
-
-
Title
-
Role of Nonmuscle Myosin II in Hepatic Stellate Cell Activation
-
Author
-
Moore, Cathy
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Molecular biology
-
Description
-
The hepatic stellate cell (HSC) plays a pivotal role in the development of hepatic fibrosis. Regulation of liver microcirculation is a complex system where blood flow is under systemic and sinusoidal control. Upon a fibrogenic stimulus, quiescent ...
-
-
Title
-
Regulation of Myosin IIIa Motor/Kinase Activity
-
Author
-
Moore, Judy
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Biochemistry, Neurosciences, Cytology
-
Description
-
Myosin IIIa, a motor protein that localizes to actin-rich regions of photoreceptors and to stereocilia of inner ear hair cells, is associated with the hearing process in vertebrates and with phototransduction for invertebrates. It contains a large...
-
-
Title
-
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stress, Coping, and Retention among Novice Teachers
-
Author
-
Fisher, Molly
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
-
Description
-
There are many factors that lead to stress and burnout of teachers that ultimately result in up to half of teachers leaving the profession before their sixth year of experience. This study is a mixed-method approach to the problem that began with ...
-
-
Title
-
Test uncertainty ratio (TUR) and test uncertainty
-
Author
-
Khanam, Samira
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Mechanical engineering
-
Description
-
Measurement uncertainty is a natural parameter that can be used to characterize any measure¬ment process. Continually increasing demands of higher and higher dimensional accuracy in manufactured components places similar demands on the field of di...
-
-
Title
-
The Effects of Explicit Self-regulated Learning Strategy Instruction on Mathematics Achievement
-
Author
-
Jenkins, Janet
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
-
Description
-
Self-regulated learning includes the use of a set of strategies for planning, monitoring, and self-evaluating students' efforts toward reaching specific learning goals. This study examined the extent to which explicit self-regulated learning strat...
-
-
Title
-
THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FUZZY QUERY PROCESSING ON SENSOR NETWORKS
-
Author
-
Doman, Marguerite
-
Date Created
-
2009
-
Subjects--Topical
-
Computer science
-
Description
-
Sensor nodes and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) enable observation of the physical world in unprecedented levels of granularity. A growing number of environmental monitoring applications are being designed to leverage data collection features of W...
