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Post-glacial interactions between climate, landscapes, and soils remain poorly understood, especially in alpine and sub-alpine areas. Here, I aim to increase understandin[...]
2010 | doctoral dissertations |
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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 ini[...]
2009 | doctoral dissertations |
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Industry cluster theory has been the predominant model guiding economic development policy throughout the world for nearly two decades. As appealing as the cluster appro[...]
2009 | doctoral dissertations |
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Cadmium (Cd) and elevated temperatures are common stressors in estuarine and coastal environments affecting intertidal mollusks such as oysters. Cd and elevated temperatu[...]
2012 | doctoral dissertations |
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The development of literacy skills is a crucial skill that all students are entitled to develop (Browder, Gibbs, Ahlgrim-Delzell, Courtade, Mraz, Flowers, in press). Curr[...]
2009 | doctoral dissertations |
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Early intervention models such as Response to Intervention have shown promise in reducing risk of academic failure (Bursuck et al., 2005; Foorman, Fletcher, Francis, &[...]
2009 | doctoral dissertations |
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James Surowiecki in his book on the wisdom of crowds wrote about the decisions made based on the aggregation of information in groups. Knowing the many case studies and a[...]
2010 | doctoral dissertations |
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between age, gender, program of study, and number of online courses previously taken and instructional delivery[...]
2009 | doctoral dissertations |
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As the size and node density of wireless sensor networks (WSN) increase, the energy conservation problem becomes more critical and the conventional methods become inadequ[...]
2009 | doctoral dissertations |
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Lapping and polishing are loose abrasive finishing processes that have been used to achieve critical surface parameters in optical materials for centuries. These process[...]
2009 | doctoral dissertations |