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Micro-credit and household productivity : evidence from Bangladesh.
(2009-07-08)This paper tests the effect of micro-credit on household productivity to determine whether micro-credit programs facilitate productivity gains through skills transfer and human capital formation in addition to the provision ... -
A microwave radiometer system for use in biomedical applications.
(2007-02-21)The biomedical industry is a rapidly growing sector and demands are increasing for the production of safe and noninvasive technologies. With the current surge of diabetes, a very desirable application for these technologies ... -
Mighty men and the public thing : the virtue of citizen armies in the ancient world.
(2009-08-26)The hypothesis of this dissertation is that republican polities in the ancient world demonstrated a rare form of martial ideology in their citizen armies. Otherwise known as "civic militarism," this martial ideology was ... -
The migration of Chinese-Vietnamese from Vietnam : the Truong Family.
(2010-10-08)Indochinese refugees inundated Southeast Asian nations in 1978 and 1979. The majority of those leaving Vietnam were of Chinese descent. Though labeled refugees, many if not most of those ethnic Chinese who left Vietnam ... -
Migration, mobility and social disorganization in rural agricultural and recreational communities.
(2010-06-23)This article seeks to examine how the economic base of a rural community affects mobility, social cohesion and crime. Drawing upon the wealth of research in criminology and the emerging research in the variety of rural ... -
The military and administrative leadership of the Black Prince.
(2008-10-28)Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine (1330-1376), has been analyzed on many different levels for his military genius in battle during the Hundred Years War. Known as the Black Prince, Edward had an effective ... -
Mimetic removal in early national American poetry.
(, 2012-11-29)Utilizing René Girard’s concept of mimetic desire, and looking at the historical removal of Native Americans, provides insight into a concept called mimetic removal. Poetry by Josias Lyndon Arnold, Philip Freneau, and ... -
The mind of Malcolm.
(2007-12-03)Typically history has remembered Malcolm X as the militant minister to the Nation of Islam. Through various media such as music and film, popular culture has memorialized Malcolm X as the American icon willing to achieve ... -
Mirages in the desert : the tradition-historical developments of the story of Massah-Meribah.
(2015-03-31)The story of Massah-Meribah – in which Moses strikes a rock in the wilderness and water flows out for the Israelites to drink – is a prevalent and pluriform tradition within Hebrew Bible. This dissertation traces the ... -
Mixed-methods study of the impact of a computational thinking course on student attitudes about technology and computation.
(, 2013-09-16)The following dissertation reports on a mixed-methods, convergent parallel design research study of the impact of a computational thinking curriculum on attitudes towards computation and the use of technology. This study ... -
Modeling a multiple, contradictory self : collective voices of (anorexic) identity from cyberspace.
(, 2011-12-19)As the primary text of the psychiatric establishment, the DSM-IV has been criticized for contributing to the stigmatization and marginalization of individuals with mental illness. The rapid rise of the internet as a ... -
Modeling canopy foliar traits and disturbance interactions in central Texas woodlands.
(2009-06-10)The present study examines canopy foliar traits and their interactions with the greater ecosystem at multiple scales. Leaf mass/area ratios, nitrogen, and phosphorus were measured and were shown to correlate with relative ... -
Modeling channel erosion in cohesive streams of the Blackland Prairie, Texas at the watershed scale.
(2008-10-02)Stream bank erosion is a product of submerged and subaerial processes. The goal of this research was to assess the application of the submerged jet test to predict erosion of cohesive stream banks in the Blackland Prairie ... -
Modeling divine deliberation.
(, 2011-09-14)Under the assumption that God deliberates when he decides which world he will create, I set out to build a model for God’s deliberation. The first chapter will lay the ground and outline each chapter. From Chapter Two ... -
Modeling of flexible fiber motion and prediction of material properties.
(, 2011-09-14)This work employs the rod chain model of Wang et al. (2006) to study the motion of discrete flexible fibers. Results are presented for both individual fibers and a stochastic distribution of fibers to study the variations ... -
Modeling technology diffusion within Vietnam : a network approach.
(2015-03-27)This paper attempts to model three types of technology transfer within Vietnam. It is assumed that knowledge enters the country through firms that export to other countries. It can then spread by one of three mechanisms: ... -
Modeling the transport of sucralose, an anthropogenic tracer, in an effluent dependent watershed with the Soil and Water Assessment Tool during an extreme drought.
(2015-11-17)Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in rapidly urbanizing watersheds represent an area of increasing attention. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), has been used for numerous water quality and quantity assessments, ... -
Modeling, design, and development of potential inhibitors of γ-glutamylamine cyclotransferase and inhibitors of cruzain as therapeutic agents for Chagas' disease.
(2008-06-11)γ-Glutamylamine cyclotransferase (γ-GACT) catalyzes cyclization of the L-glutamyl moiety in the isolated ε-(L-γ-glutamyl)-L-lysine crosslink, thereby releasing lysine. Although implicated in the degradation of the crosslink, ... -
Models for rested touchless gestural interaction.
(2015-07-31)Touchless mid-air gestural interaction has gained mainstream attention with the emergence of off-the-shelf commodity devices such as the Leap Motion and the Xbox Kinect. One of the issues with this form of interaction is ... -
Modification of fresh tissue surfaces; synthesis of labeled L-dopa analogs; and synthesis of metoclopramide analogs.
(2006-05-27)One of the main goals of the primary project was to develop methods to site specifically immobilize functional proteins on a tissue surface. There are many examples of proteins that have been chemically modified and ...