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Charging of aggregate grains in astrophysical environments.
(, 2011-12-19)Plasma is a gas in which a portion of particles are ionized. Dust is a ubiquitous component of the universe, and when present in plasma, can form dusty plasma system. Dust in the plasma is generally charged due to the ... -
Charles Dickens’s Bleak house: Benthamite jurisprudence and the law, or what the law is and what the law ought to be.
(2008-06-09)Dickens’s foggy world of the nineteenth-century Chancery Court is famous, and infamous, for keeping its litigants in a constant and never-ending state of legal confusion, costs, and “conglomeration” (Bleak House 1873 I: ... -
Chemical toxicity distributions in aquatic toxicology : relative sensitivities of estrogenicity assays and ecotoxicity of parabens in model freshwater organisms.
(2008-12)A probabilistic ecological hazard assessment technique, chemical toxicity distributions, was used to examine the relative sensitivities of in vitro and in vivo assays for detecting estrogenicity, and to assess the hazards ... -
Chemistry of picolyl substituted phosphines.
(2009-08-26)The study and understanding of the coordination behavior of functional ligands with d¹⁰ "closed shell" metals has been active for many years, as it will continue to expand along with advances in characterization techniques ... -
Chemistry, electrochemistry and electron transfer induced reactions of cobalt complexes with fluorinated ligands.
(2008-03-03)The chemical or electrochemical reduction of the trifluoroacetyl complex CF3COCo(CO)3PPh3 involves a single electron transfer yielding trifluoromethyl radical and an anionic cobalt carbonyl complex. The mechanism is ... -
Chemometric modeling of UV-visible and LC-UV data for prediction of hydrolysate fermentability and identification of inhibitory degradation products.
(, 2011-12-19)Production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass requires a pretreatment step to liberate fermentable sugars trapped within the plant. During pretreatment, lignin and some sugars undergo degradation to form compounds ... -
Chesterton and his interlocutors: dialogical style and ethical debate on eugenics.
(2007-12-04)Before Nazi Germany’s eugenic practices had been completely exposed and denounced, G. K. Chesterton, a British writer best known for his fiction and Roman Catholic apologetics, published Eugenics and Other Evils in 1922. ... -
Christian covenant and liberal freedom : a new approach to the modern marriage crisis.
(, 2012-08-08)Today’s society is burdened by an overwhelming abundance of government regulations in what is commonly regarded as the private realm, and sizeable numbers of people of all political ideologies are scrambling to end those ... -
Christian-informed mindfulness : a theoretical and empirical exploration.
(2016-07-05)Mindfulness is a theory and practice skill that originates from Buddhism. Most who study and use mindfulness do so by drawing from Buddhist precepts, values and practices. This dissertation explored and evaluated a Christian ... -
Christianity, secularism, and America: an exploration and critique of the historical, legal, social, and philosophical implications of secularism from an American perspective.
(2008-04-15)The historian C. John Sommerville has invited academics to treat secularism much as they have religion, which means he thinks it should be studied, written about, and taught critically. This dissertation represents an ... -
Chronic intermittent ethanol treatment yields persistent increases in anxiety and receptor subunit changes in adolescent and adult rats.
(, 2014-01-28)GABAA and NMDA receptors are involved in the behavioral effects of ethanol; however, the age-dependent molecular mechanisms associated with the effects of chronic ethanol have yet to be fully elucidated. Adolescence is ... -
The church and obesity today : the role of the church in promoting physical activity among south Texas Hispanic populations.
(, 2013-09-16)The purpose of this study was to determine what physical activity resources are provided by churches within south Texas Hispanic communities and to determine if the Physical Activity Resource Assessment (PARA) instrument ... -
Church and secondary societies in Korean ecclesiology and the Christocentric perspective of Karl Barth.
(2011-05-12)My purpose is to critically map out the relationship between Church and society in the current Korean context in light of three models: difference, identity, and harmony, and to propose a better relationship between Church ... -
The cinematography of "Closet memories."
(, 2013-09-16)The cinematography of a film heavily influences the audience’s mood and their perception of tension. The way a director of photography uses lights and the camera can enhance or destroy the moments of a film a director has ... -
The cinematography of In Paradise.
(, 2014-06-11)A film's cinematography should interpret and render the various elements of the story in visual terms and add levels of meaning that enhance the action and dialogue. Lighting, framing and camera movement should be used to ... -
Civic friendship and a value assumption in Rawls.
(2016-03-16)In the late twentieth century, John Rawls reinvigorated the social contract theory in political philosophy. Previous contract theories could not explain how those bound by the social contract consent to be bound. Rawls ... -
The Civil War as it relates to museums in Texas : four case studies.
(, 2013-09-16)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interpretive methods and narratives used by the Texas Heritage Museum, the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, the Texas Civil War Museum, and the Pearce Museum in Texas, ... -
Clare of Assisi : shaping a new paradigm of sainthood.
(2010-02-02)Separating the historical figure of Saint Clare from the icon handed down from history is a significant part of this study. Part of the complexity of the life of Clare of Assisi rested in the negotiation of her very public ... -
Classification of cosmological models in Einstein's general theory of gravity.
(2009-08-24)In this thesis, I first review the fundamentals of Hot Big Bang cosmology, the observational cosmology and the late accelerating universe. Then I systematically study the evolution of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) ... -
Clergy perceptions of sexual assault victimization.
(, 2014-09-05)Although congregants often turn to clergy for help in dealing with personal difficulties, including marital problems, substance abuse issues, and mental illness, survivors of sexual assault do not commonly turn to clergy ...