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- Title
- Development of a Methanotrophic Alternative Daily Cover to Reduce Early Landfill Methane Emissions
- Author
- Adams, Bryn
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Microbiology, Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences
- Description
- Final covers, especially when supplemented with gas collection, are highly engineered systems to prevent landfill methane release into the atmosphere. However, some methane production begins even before open cells are covered and often well before...
- Title
- A Study of Leadership Factors, Retention Strategies, and Retention Rates in Associate Degree Nursing Programs
- Author
- Arthurs, Janet
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing, Community colleges--Study and teaching, School management and organization
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to examine transformational leadership practices of Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) directors, the relationship to student retention rates, and retention strategies used. The Leadership Practices Inventory-Self (LPI-Se...
- Title
- Infrared Photocurrent Spectroscopy Of Deep Levels In Mg-Doped GaN And AlxGa1-xN
- Author
- Batoni, Paolo
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Recently, there is an increasing demand for III-nitride semiconductor based optoelectronic devices, and especially for ultraviolet (UV) and Deep UV sources and sensors; however, the development and the performance of such devices is fundamentally ...
- Title
- Effects of Edge Roughness on Optical Scattering from Periodic Microstructures
- Author
- Bergner, Brent
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Nanotechnology
- Description
- Planar photonic crystals and other microstructured surfaces have important applications in a number of emerging technologies. However, these structures can be difficult to fabricate in a consistent manner. Rapid, precise measurements of critical p...
- Title
- Local Public Sector Allocation of Scarce Emergency Assets: An Evaluation of the Fire Service
- Author
- Boyd, Jr., Robert
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Political science, Public administration
- Description
- The methodology utilized by public sector managers to allocate scarce resources determines the level, efficiency, and effectiveness of service delivery. These decisions are influenced by a myriad of factors, not the least of which is the ideal goa...
- Title
- BUCKLING LOAD PREDICTIONS IN PRESSURE VESSELS UTILIZING MONTE CARLO METHOD
- Author
- Brar, Gurinder
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- In practice, large diameter, thin wall shells of revolution are never fabricated with constant diameters and thicknesses over the entire length of the assembly. These initial geometric imperfections have significant effect on the load carrying cap...
- Title
- CORRELATES OF PARENT-CHILD CONCORDANCE IN SEXUAL ATTITUDES: DOES PARTICIPATION IN THE PARENTS MATTER! PROGRAM IMPROVE THIS AGREEMENT?
- Author
- Bridger, Colleen
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Health education, Families--Study and teaching
- Description
- The sexual health of America's teens is a critical public health issue. Parents are ill-prepared and ill-equipped to fill the sexuality education gap facing today's teens. Understanding the most effective and efficient way to teach parents how to ...
- Title
- Comparison of the effectiveness of Traditional Nursing Medication Administration with the Color Coding Kids System in a sample of undergraduate nursing students
- Author
- Burgess, Colleen
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing, Health education
- Description
- ABSTRACTThe problem of medication errors in hospitals and the vulnerability of pediatric patients to adverse drug events (ADE) was investigated and well substantiated. The estimated additional cost of inpatient care for ADE's in the hospital setti...
- Title
- Thinking interactively with visualization
- Author
- Chang, Remco
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science
- Description
- Interaction is becoming an integral part of using visualization for analysis. When interaction is tightly and appropriately coupled with visualization, it can transform the visualization from displaying static imagery to assisting comprehensive an...
- Title
- Health Literacy: Assessing the Current State of Practice Among Respiratory Therapists
- Author
- Clark, Kimberly
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Health education
- Description
- Nearly half of American adults lack the necessary health literacy skills needed to understand and act appropriately on health information. The purpose of this research was to assess the current state of practice and knowledge of health literacy am...
- Title
- WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER: IMPLEMENTING THE SIOP MODEL INTO AN URBAN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS
- Author
- Collins, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Curriculum planning
- Description
- Research points to many factors that contribute to the achievement gap between white and minority students however; one important issue that is often overlooked is the academic language status of the student. Knowing that lack of familiarity and p...
- Title
- Performing Student, Teacher, and Tutor of Writing: Negotiating Ideas of Writing in a First-year Writing Course and Writing Center Tutorials
- Author
- Courtney, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Language arts, Rhetoric
- Description
- Based upon the sociocultural theories of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Bourdieu, Holland et al. and the work of composition scholars such as Welch, Brannon et al., and Bousquet et al., who oppose neoliberal privatization, this qualitative study explores how ...
- Title
- DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF TRANSMISSION POLE STRUCTURES UNDER BLASTING INDUCED GROUND VIBRATION
- Author
- Dai, Kaoshan
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- Structural integrity of electric transmission poles is crucial for the reliability of power delivery. In some areas where blasting is used for mining or construction, these structures are endangered if they are located close to blasting sites. Thr...
- 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...
- Title
- High School Students' Perceptions of the Importance of School Counselor Multicultural Counseling Competence
- Author
- Eckenrod-Green, Wendy
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational counseling
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between high school students' perceptions of the importance of school counselor multicultural competence (SCMCC) and student's characteristics (i.e., students race, SES, sex, grade level, a...
- Title
- Intracellular Subsurface Imaging Using a Hybrid Shear-Force Feedback/ Scanning Quantitative Phase Microscopy Technique
- Author
- Edward, Kert
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics
- Description
- Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) allows for the imaging of translucent or transparent biological specimens without the need for exogenous contrast agents. This technique is usually applied towards the investigation of simple cells such as red b...
- Title
- FACTORS THAT DETERMINE THE CAREER STABILITY OF ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS IN A LARGE URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE SOUTHEAST
- Author
- Edwards, Danielle
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, School management and organization
- Description
- This study examined the career stability (career choices assistant principals intend to make over the next five to ten years) in a large, urban school district in the southeastern region of the United States in order to identify factors significan...
- Title
- A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Measure of Preservice Teacher Knowledge, Skills and Dispositions
- Author
- Ellison, Antoinette
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Teachers--Training of, Educational tests and measurements
- Description
- Recent literature on school improvement indicates that teacher quality has a large impact on student learning (Aaronson, Barrow, & Sander, 2007; Rivkin, Hanushek & Kane, 2005; Hanushek, Kane, O'Brien, & Rivkin, (2005); Nye, Konstantopoulos, Hedges...
- Title
- Challenges Faced by African International Students at a Metropolitan Research University: A Phenomenological Case Study
- Author
- Evivie, Loretta
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, History
- Description
- The number of international students coming to the United States has increased from 48,486 in 1959-1960 to 623,805 in the 2007-2008 academic years (Open Doors, 2008). These students contributed $15.5 billion to the United States economy, making ed...
- 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 ...