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Damage accumulation of bovine bone under chaotic loading.
(2016-10-11)
A stress fracture is a common injury that plagues many individuals. Since there is not currently a method to predict if a stress fracture will develop, this pilot study was conducted to determine if either the Palmgren-Miner ...
Antecedents to turnover intention : examining organizational learning culture and leader member exchange.
(2016-04-04)
Turnover intention is an important variable for organizations seeking to retain employees and reduce costs associated with hiring and training new employees. While variables such as organizational commitment, job satisfaction, ...
Understanding the dragon's theatre : an Anglophone historiography of Vietnamese theatre.
(2016-08-03)
Anglophone scholarship on Vietnamese theatre has a complex history; its authors range from British and American explorers to current day Asian theatre scholars. The evolution of English-language scholarship on Vietnamese ...
Maternal memorable messages in understanding femininity.
(2016-02-29)
The messages a mother communicates to her children play an important role in the attitudes they develop toward their own self-identity and toward their mindsets concerning femininity (Bem, 1983; Colaner & Rittenour, 2015; ...
Religion and economic growth : an analysis at the city level.
(2016-05-02)
This paper looks at the effect of religious beliefs on economic growth using a Brazilian city-level survey data as opposed to the more popular country-level data, thus separating the effect from different social and ...
Assessment of shaped film cooling holes at high density ratios for gas turbine cooling using S-PIV and PSP.
(2016-02-27)
During film-hole cooling, relatively cold air is extracted from the compressor of a gas turbine engine and forced through the turbine airfoils in order to lower their surface temperatures. To investigate the effects of ...
Exploring Johannine ethics : a rhetorical approach to moral efficacy in the Fourth Gospel narrative.
(2016-07-26)
Facilitating a fresh approach to the long-standing "problem" of Johannine ethics, this project utilizes rhetorical analysis to explore the ways of thinking and living that the Fourth Gospel narrative would likely have ...
Quantification of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in environmental matricies
(2016-11-21)
A consistent analytical method incorporating sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄) digestion and ICP-MS quantification for titanium dioxide (TiO₂) was validated for 4 environmentally relevant matrices. The method provided Ti recoveries ...
An investigation of the feasibility of Mindfulness-Based Hypnotherapy for stress and anxiety.
(2016-08-01)
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs have shown considerable promise for reducing anxiety and stress. However, group mindfulness interventions often involve 8 weekly 2 hour sessions and a one-day retreat, ...
Unimolecular decomposition kinetics at resolved internal energies.
(2016-12-01)
The kinetic behavior of microcanonical unimolecular decomposition reactions involving clusters formed by the electrostatic interaction between transition metal cations and simple organic molecules has been measured at ...