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Effects of Supraliminal Superstitious Cues on Attitudes
(2012-05-07)Despite detrimental effects on both individual and societal development, studies show socially-shared superstitious thoughts and behaviors continue to be reinforced by supraliminal and subliminal environmental cues. The ... -
Effects of surface heterogeneity on the colloidal stability, protein adsorption and bacterial interaction of nanoparticles.
(2014-01-28)Interfacial processes like aggregation and deposition control the transport and fate of natural and engineering nanoparticles (NPs) in the environment, which are relevant to important environmental processes, applications, ... -
Effects of the dynamic human body on electromagnetic wave propagation for on-body wireless communication.
(2016-04-06)Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have the potential to provide long-term remote health monitoring for the prevention of impending health problems through the constant relaying of data to health professionals. In order ... -
The Effects of the egl-13 Transcription Factor is Linked to the pat-3 B integrin
The ability to properly reproduce is essential to any organism, including the hermaphroditic model organism Caenorhabditis elegans. In C. elegans development, the transcription factor egl-13, a homolog of human polycomb ... -
Effects of the glenohumeral joint center on the role of the middle deltoid : implications for reverse total shoulder arthroplasty.
(, 2013-09-24)For shoulders with rotator cuff damage, the reverse shoulder replacement medializes the center of glenohumeral joint rotation, lending larger moment arms to undamaged muscles like the deltoid. The aim of this thesis was ... -
Effects of the hydrophobic coating on the initiation of frost formation.
(2016-07-31)The growth and freezing process of water droplets forming on hydrophobic coated surface were investigated by using a digital high-speed microscopy system. The images indicated that hydrophobicity of surfaces can affect the ... -
Effects of the implementation of the "Rally to Read" program : a tier 3 approach within the response to intervention process.
(2010-06-23)This study was a mixed-method, quasi-experimental investigation that evaluated the implementation of the “Rally to Read” remediation program, designed by the Center for Learning and Development (CLD), as a Tier 3 intervention ... -
Effects of the Training and Education of M.Div. Students on the Identification and Treatment of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
(2013-05-23)This paper assessed accredited M.Div. seminary programs in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico on the presence and strength of counseling course requirements and courses discussing mental illness. The researcher ... -
Effects of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles on Bacteria Community Composition Under Snail Grazing Pressure
(2016-08-05)In 2013, the King and Matson labs at Baylor University conducted an outdoor stream mesocosm study at the Baylor Experimental Aquatic Research (BEAR) facility using wastewater treatment plant effluent and P25 titanium dioxide ... -
The Effects of Vancomycin on the Structure of Cell Wall Peptidoglycan of vanB-type Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
(2015-03-30)Enterococcus faecalis is a leading cause of nosocomial infections, and the clinical emergence of vancomycin-resistant E. faecalis (VRE) makes studying this bacterium increasingly urgent. This study investigates a vanB-type ... -
The Effects of Water Quality on Growth in Children on Kenya's Nyakach Plateau
Poor water quality is one of the many problems that affect developing nations and contributes to the virtually inescapable cycle of poverty in which the world’s impoverished are trapped. Straw to Bread, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit ... -
Effects on Morphology of Coconut Shell Powder in a Polypropylene Matrix
(2012-05-01)Due to increasing environmental awareness and rapid depletion of nonrenewable resources, sustainable natural materials have been more widely used as fillers in polymeric composites. Coconut shell powder (CSP) is a renewable ... -
Effervescence and solidarity in religious organizations.
(, 2012-08-08)This project is an effort to test and extend Randall Collins’ interaction ritual theory in the context of religious organizations. The theory proposes that optimal management of bodily copresence, intersubjectivity, and ... -
Efficient M-fold Cross-validation Algorithm for KNearest Neighbors
(2010-08-12)This project investigates m-fold cross-validation algorithms for automatic selection of k with k-nearest neighbors problems. An algorithm taxonomy is used to identify different m-fold cross-validation algorithms. The ... -
Efficient, glucose responsive, and cell-specific transgene expression in pancreatic islets.
(2009-08-26)Diabetes mellitus is increasing in prevalence, affecting more than 5% of the population throughout the world. Novel therapeutic strategies, including new medications, islet transplantation, and gene therapy, are vigorously ... -
Eigenvalue comparison theorems for certain boundary value problems and positive solutions for a fifth order singular boundary value problem.
(2016-03-23)Comparison of smallest eigenvalues for certain two point boundary value problems for a fifth order linear differential equation are first obtained. The results are extended to (2n+1)-order and (3n+2)-order boundary value ... -
Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
(2010-10-08)This study argues that W.B. Yeats is an important poetic precursor for Eavan Boland, and particularly for her sophisticated engagement with the age-old subgenre of ekphrasis, in which a poem responds to a work of visual ... -
El impulso ético en la narrativa latinoamericana del siglo XXI = The ethical impulse in the Latin American narrative of the 21st century.
(2016-03-31)Esta tesis analiza el impulso ético en la narrativa latinoamericana del siglo XXI. Examina en profundidad los cuentos “Santa Fe” de Alejandra Costamagna, “Imágenes photoshop” de Edmundo Paz Soldán y “Horses in the Smoke” ... -
El movimiento and Vietnam : the causes and consequences of Chicano protest of the Vietnam War.
(2009-08-26)The Chicano Movement, a radical offshoot of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement, came forth upon the national scene during the turbulent 1960s. After a promising start, the movement fizzled, and by the middle of the ... -
El nuevo historicismo y la otredad en la narrativa contemporánea nicaragüense: el caso de Sergio Ramírez.
(2006-07-30)En la presente tesis se analiza la narrativa nueva-histórica del autor nicaragüense Sergio Ramírez (1942), la cual consideramos como una de las tres tendencias fundamentales de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea ...