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Title
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A Framework for the Design and Analysis of Socially Pervasive Games
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Author
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Powell, Eve
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Philosophy
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Description
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Pervasive games have the potential to create large social impacts on players and non-players alike. However, this can only happen when the game becomes integrated and accepted within a social community - or in other words, is socially adopted in i...
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A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Leadership Effectiveness
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Author
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Paustian-Underdahl, Samantha
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Management
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Description
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Despite years of evidence showing that men are typically considered to be more appropriate and effective in leadership positions than women, a recent debate has emerged over the potential existence of a female leadership advantage in certain conte...
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A SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D COMMINUTED BONE FRACTURES
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Author
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Liu, Pengcheng
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Computer science
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Description
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High energy impacts at joint locations often generate highly fragmented, or comminuted bone fractures. A leading current approach for treatment requires physicians qualitatively to classify the fracture to one of four possible fracture severity ca...
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ANALYSIS OF CONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES OF CORE/ SHELL NANOCOMPOSITE STRUCTURES
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Author
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Moorthy, Gayathri
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Nanoscience
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Description
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Nanostructures have been explored considerably in recent times to ascertain the unique properties they exhibit in the nanoscale regime as opposed to their bulk counterparts. Their characteristic high surface-to-volume ratio coupled with confinemen...
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Abstract visualization of large-scale time-varying data
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Author
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Yu, Li
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Computer engineering
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Description
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The explosion of large-scale time-varying datasets has created critical challenges for scientists to study and digest. One core problem for visualization is to develop effective approaches that can be used to study various data features and tempor...
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Title
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Alcohol Use and Mental Health Issues In Fifth-Year College Students
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Author
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Zuber, Pilar
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Public health, Mental health
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Description
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The purpose of this study was to develop a profile of at-risk 5th-year students by assessing the relationships between heavy alcohol use and mental health issues, on academic performance in 5th-year students. This secondary analysis study used the...
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An Evaluation of Best Practices in Online Continuing Theological Education
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Author
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Raybon, Stephen
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Continuing education, Religious education
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Description
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ABSTRACTSTEPHEN PAUL RAYBON An evaluation of best practices in online continuing theological education (Under the direction of JOHN A. GRETES) The principle purpose of this mixed methods case study was to evaluate the extent to which a wholly onli...
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An Evaluation of a Strategic Staffing Initiative in a Large Urban School District
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Author
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Rosenbach, Laura
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Educational evaluation, Education and state
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Description
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LAURA JULIA ROSENBACH. An evaluation of a Strategic Staffing Initiative in a large urban school district. (Under the direction of DR. CLAUDIA FLOWERS) This mixed method study examined the impact of a district-wide Strategic Staffing Initiative (SS...
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Bioactive ceramic coating on orthopedic implants for enhanced bone tissue integration
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Author
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Aniket, .
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Nanoscience, Biomedical engineering
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Description
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Tissue integration between bone and orthopedic implant is essential for implant fixation and longevity. An immunological response leads to fibrous encapsulation of metallic implants leading to implant instability and failure. Bioactive ceramics ha...
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Title
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Branching Processes in Random Trees
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Author
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Jutmaan, Yanjmaa
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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We study the behavior of branching process in a random environment on trees in the critical, subcritical and supercritical case. We are interested in the case when both the branching and the step transition parameters are random quantities. We pre...
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Title
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Calculating ensemble averaged descriptions of protein rigidity without sampling
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Author
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Jacobs, Donald J., Gonzalez, Luis C., Wang, Hui, Livesay, Dennis R.
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Biology, Proteins
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Description
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Previous works have demonstrated that protein rigidity is related to thermodynamic stability, especially under conditions that favor formation of native structure. Mechanical network rigidity properties of a single conformation are efficiently cal...
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Title
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Changes in Lysozyme flexibility upon mutation are frequent, large and long-ranged
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Author
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Jacobs, Donald J., Verma, Deeptak, Livesay, Dennis R.
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics, Statistics
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Description
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We investigate changes in human c-type lysozyme flexibility upon mutation via a Distance Constraint Model, which gives a statistical mechanical treatment of network rigidity. Specifically, two dynamical metrics are tracked. Changes in flexibility ...