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Title: POST-LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION OF THE UPPER CONEJOS RIVER BASIN, SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, CO, USA.
Author: Aldred, Jennifer
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology, Geology, Soil science
Description: Soil development combined with sediment storage and erosion in small, upland watersheds are key landscape processes for which assumptions are frequently made but rarely verified in landscape evolution studies. However, processes such as these, act...

Title: Association Between the Affordable Care Act and Emergency Department Admission by Psychiatric Patients
Author: Asgharian, Afsaneh
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Mental health
Description: AbstractThis was a cross-sectional study to evaluate the association between the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the emergency department (ED) admission by psychiatric patients, characteristics of psychiatric patients admitted to ED, and the ED visi...

Title: Access to the Baccalaureate: A Multilevel Model of Baccalaureate Completion for Associate in Applied Science Transfers
Author: Atwell, Adam
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: This study used multilevel modeling to examine the extent to which student, academic, institutional, and community-level characteristics impact the baccalaureate attainment of students who transferred with the Associate in Applied Science (AAS) de...

Title: Characterization of Firebrands Generated from Selected Vegetative Fuels in Wildland Fires
Author: Bahrani, Babak
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Statistics
Description: Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and Wildland fires cause damages to infrastructure and the environment, resulting in loss of life, property, and an increasing cost of mitigation. Firebrands are known as one of the leading fire spread mechanisms in ...

Title: Treatment of Algal Toxins in Drinking Water with UV-Based Advanced Oxidation Processes
Author: Barancheshme, Fateme
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Description: The occurrence of algal blooms and the possibility of production of algal toxins and contamination of drinking water resources have become a significant concern worldwide. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are currently known as one of the most ...

Title: A NUMERICAL STUDY OF INTERFACIAL INSTABILITIES IN SHOCKED MATERIALS WITH SURFACE TENSION
Author: Bigdelou, Pedram
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Fluid mechanics, Physics
Description: Shock-driven multi-material flows occur in several applications including shock wave lithotripsy, underwater explosions, droplet combustion, propeller cavitation and ejection of material from surfaces subject to blast loading. Such flows are highl...

Title: Investigation of Tool Wear in Diamond Turning of Cu-Ni Alloys Using Single crystal Diamond Tools
Author: Blum, Alexander
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Goods manufactured using single point diamond turning (SPDT) are commonplace in everyday life in products from cell phones to street signs. Diamond turning is the process of using single crystal diamond (SCD) tools mounted on extremely precise mac...

Title: SMALL - AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES’ CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT PROCESSES IMPACT ON FIRM PERFORMANCE MODERATED BY ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION
Author: Branner, Katrice
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Many studies investigate the factors that impact small and medium-sized enterprise performance. In this dissertation, the research model suggests that customer relationship management processes are a multi-dimensional construct that can be a sourc...

Title: The Role of Environmental Buffers in Potable Water Reuse
Author: Brown, Xueying
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Water resources development--Management
Description: Conventional drinking water resources are not a sustainable solution to supply the rapidly growing populations in traditionally arid states. These areas, as well as others around the world, are increasingly reliant on recycling treated municipal e...

Title: Three Essays in Housing
Author: Brunson, Sean
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This dissertation addresses the potential mismeasurement of home price indices and its implications on mortgage default research during the recession and examines the potential drivers of the housing affordability issue since the recession. The fi...

Title: USES OF ARGUMENTATION IN AN UNDERGRADUATE CALCULUS CLASSROOM: MEDIATING STUDENT GENERALIZATION WITHIN RIEMANN SUMS AND INTEGRATION
Author: Bumgardner, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
Description: Many of the struggles students face in postsecondary mathematics courses arise from their rote memorization of mathematical concepts, rather than having developed a relational understanding of these concepts. A relational understanding of mathemat...

Title: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF REPEAT LANDSCAPES IN AVENA (OAT)
Author: Burkes, Shelvasha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Bioinformatics, Botany
Description: Avena sativa, or common oat, is a staple crop and member of the Poaceae or Grass family. Following behind wheat, maize and rice, oats account for 10.5 million hectares of the world’s produced crops as of 2017. Phytocompounds such as β-glucan, aven...

Title: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF RSSI-BASED LOCALIZATION SCHEMES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TO MITIGATE SHADOWING EFFECTS
Author: CHUKU, NDUBUEZE
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Received radio frequency (RF) signal strength provides a cost-effective mechanism for distance estimation that is popularly used for range-based localization in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The typical method of determining sensor location usin...

Title: VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: DO PEOPLE CHOOSE RESIDENTIAL DESTINATIONS BASED ON NATURALLY OCCURRING ADVANTAGES OR MAN-MADE ADVANTAGES OF LOCATIONS?
Author: Canales, Kristine Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Government policy, Economics
Description: Local economies benefit from attracting in-migration either as workforce or as consumers. To compete for constituents, local economies need to provide attractive tax policy and expenditure bundles. An important consideration in this regard is the ...

Title: SYMBIOSIS ACROSS DIET-INDUCED PHENOTYPES OF LARVAL SEA URCHINS
Author: Carrier, Tyler
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Ecology, Aquatic sciences
Description: Larval sea urchins have served as a fundamental system for understanding development, phenotypic plasticity, and life-history evolution over much of the last century. In the recent decade, this understanding has begun to extend to the microbiota a...

Title: Why nations succeed? Distribution and reach of the state power
Author: Cekic, Nejra
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Political science, Economics
Description: What explains the difference in the performance of the world’s nations? Why do some succeed, and others fail? I argue that the primary determinants of development are two dimensions of a country’s institutional setting. The purpose of this study i...

Title: Assessments of Indel Annotation Programs and Comparative Somatic Indel Analysis in Cancer Genomes
Author: Chen, Jing
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Insertions and deletions (indels) represent the second largest variation type in human genomes and have been implicated in the development of cancer. Accurate indel annotation is of paramount importance in variants analysis in both healthy and dis...

Title: Crystalline Silicon Interfaces with Adhesive Polymer Semiconducting Glue and Thiazolothiazole Redox Active Organic Small Molecules
Author: Cohen, Daniel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Chemistry, Chemistry, Organic
Description: Crystalline silicon is an extremely versatile semiconductor material used for electronics and photovoltaic devices. An organic conductive glue based on a blend of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) and d-sorbitol ...

Title: Improving Provider Utilization of Medication Adherence Screening Tools in Adults with Hypertension in Primary Care
Author: Colleton-Livingston, kia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medicine, Gerontology
Description: Background In the United States according to Centers for Disease Control (2019), nearly half of adults, 108 million (45%) have hypertension defined as having a systolic blood pressure greater than 130 or diastolic blood pressure greater than 80. T...

Title: SOCIAL DIALOGIC LISTENING: CONNECTING MARKETING ACTIVITY TO STRATEGY
Author: Collins, Suzanne
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Marketing
Description: This research advances knowledge related to the potential role, antecedents, and benefitsof social media in relationship marketing. With rapidly changing consumer expectations,technology, and media, the marketplace is quickly evolving and firms ar...