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Tidal Freshwater Potomac River Eutrophication: Patterns and Relations to Climate Change, Nutrient Management and In Situ Factors

Sklarew, Daniel M. (2000-05-15)

Eutrophication, the transition of an aquatic ecosystem from nutrient-scarce to nutrient enriched conditions, is a water quality concern for rivers and coastal zones globally. The tidal freshwater (TFW) Potomac River, in ...
Policy Design for Competitive Retail Electric Institutions: Artificial Intelligence Representations for a Common Property Resource Approach

Pandit, Nitin S. (2001)

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New Unit Root Tests to Decrease Spurious Results with Applications in Finance and Temperature Anomalies

Herranz, Edward (2006)

Simulation studies show that when testing for cointegration with pairs of independent explosive($\gls{phi1} >1$) AR(1) time series almost invariably lead to spurious cointegrating relationships. A new unit root test, the ...
The Effect of Nature of Science Metacognitive Prompts on Science Students' Content and Nature of Science Knowledge, Metacognition, and Self-Regulatory Efficacy

Peters, Erin (2007-10-03)

The purpose of the present quasi-experimental mixed-method design is to examine the effectiveness of a developmental intervention (4-phase EMPNOS) to teach the nature of science using metacognitive prompts embedded in ...
Weather-Related Crashes on Public Land

Moore, Lewis (2007-10-09)

This research examines weather and road conditions relation to traffic crashes on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (FS) land in three states: Idaho, Oregon and California. Crash data for Idaho and ...
Ultra-Fast High-Temperature Microwave Processing of Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride

Sundaresan, Siddarth (2007-10-10)

A novel solid-state microwave annealing technique is developed in this work for post-implantation annealing of SiC and GaN, and for the controlled growth of SiC nanowires. This technique is capable of heating SiC samples ...
Microfluidic Devices for Forensic DNA Analysis

Shah, Jayna (2007-11-19)

The development of integrated, miniaturized, and portable DNA analysis systems is crucial to alleviate massive backlog of unanalyzed samples and to address ever increasing demand for these assays. This thesis work ...
An Analysis of the Potential Direct or Indirect Influence Exerted by an Al Qaeda Social Network Actor on Future Biological Weapon Mission Planning

Baken, Denise (2007-11-21)

The current conflict known as the “War on Terror” pits several sovereign states (United States and its Allies) against a non-state entity. This entity, al Qaeda, is a global social network with religious doctrine adherence ...
Actualizing Human Rights Norms in Distanced Spaces; an Analysis of the Campaign to Eliminate Conflict Diamonds and the Capital Market Sanctions (Sudan) Campaigns in the United States

Muvingi, Ismael (2007-11-27)

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, social justice activists in the United States initiated two coalition based campaigns aimed at ameliorating the violence associated with extractive industries in Angola, Sierra Leone ...
Evaluation of Intervention Programs Designed to Address High School Racial Conflicts

St. Jean, Gerardine (2007-12-11)

This dissertation research examines racial conflict—one of the contributors to school violence—and effective intervention programs. This dissertation study presents research-and theory-based integrated intervention programs ...
Multi-Objective Optimization of Blast Simulation Using Surrogate Model

Tsuga, Toshihiro (2007-12-12)

A multi objective optimization approach using a Kriging model coupled with a Multi Objective Genetic Algorithm (MOGA) is applied to a blast damage maximization problem composed of two objectives, namely number of casualties ...
Perfective and Corrective UML Pattern-based Design Maintenance with Design Constraints for Information Systems

Park, Jaeyong (2007-12-12)

Pattern-based design, the use of design pattern during the design process, has become widely used in the object-oriented community because of the reuse benefits that take less cost and effort, but result in high quality ...
Mentors' Impact on the Development of Adaptability Skills via Experiential Learning

Kemp, Cary (2007-12-12)

This research investigated the process of protégé development, focusing on the development of adaptability skills via experiential learning. Mentors facilitated skill development by challenging protégés during the ...
Authentic Leadership: Do We Really Need Another Leadership Theory?

Wood, Gabrielle (2007-12-12)

The purpose of this study was to test the incremental validity of authentic leadership above and beyond existing leadership styles. Prior leadership research has focused primarily on transformational leadership. Recently, ...
A Study of the Effectiveness of an Alternative Licensure Program for Urban Elementary Teachers of English Language Learners

Wesley-Nero, Sabrina (2007-12-12)

This study examined the qualifying portfolios of graduates of an alternative teacher licensure program to determine the extent to which the teachers evidenced effective instructional strategies for English language ...
Fighting Spirit

Pichocki, Jillian (2007-12-13)

FIGHTING SPIRIT is the title of a thesis exhibition by Jillian Pichocki. It is a photographic series of large and mediumscale silver gelatin prints which focuses on the aging process of men engaged in the sport of boxing. ...
Method for Deriving Multi-factor Models for Predicting Airport Delays

Xu, Ning (2007-12-13)

Traffic Flow Management (TFM), in coordination with Airline Operation Centers (AOC), manage the arrival and departure flow of aircraft at the nations airports based on the airport Arrival and Departure rates for each 15 ...
A Compiler-Based Approach to Implementing Smart Pointers

Hoskins, Stephen (2007-12-13)

Because of the growing popularity of programming languages with garbage collectors, such as C# and Java, there is a clearly a desire for languages that support automated memory management. However, as a result of the ...
Bridging Solutions to the Religion and Science Conflict over Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Ericson, Robin (2007-12-13)

The religion and science conflict over human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research carries high stakes; should embryos be protected as potential human life or should they be studied as possible cures for debilitating ...

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