Enlarged Transformation Group: Stars, Halos and Solar System Dynamics
Previously a theory has been presented which extends the geometrical structure of a real four-dimensional space-time via a field of orthonormal tetrads with an enlarged transformation group. This new...
View ArticleExamining the Nitty Grit: Petrographic Analysis of Late Iron Age and Archaic...
The manufacture of pottery in ancient western Sicily during the Late Iron Age and Archaic Periods (approx. 800-480 BC) is relatively poorly understood. Few pottery production sites have been...
View ArticleA Study of Pre-service Teachers’ Use of Academic Language and Discourse in...
Recently science education supports research-based teaching and learning practices in order for prospective teachers to develop necessary skills to support the academic needs of all students. The use...
View ArticleMining the Subjective, Inner Experience of Group Counseling Clients
During any group, members experience thoughts and feelings that they do not express (Yalom, 2005). In group counseling, this inner experience has the potential to offer a richness to the group process...
View ArticleAn Exploration of Broader Influence Maximization in Timeliness Networks with...
The goal of classic influence maximization in Online Social Networks (OSNs) is to maximize the spread of influence with a fix budget constraint, e.g. the size of seed nodes is pre-determined. However,...
View ArticleA Novel Segmentation Approach for Brain Tumor in MRI
Brain MR image segmentation is one of the most important applications of image segmentation technique in medicine, and is an important part of clinical diagnostic tools. Segmented image can help...
View ArticleParaspinal Muscle Segmentation in CT Images using a Single Atlas
Paraspinal muscles support spine and are the source of movement force. The cross section area (CSA) size, shape, density and volume are affected by many factors, such as surgery, age, health...
View ArticleResearch, Render, & Recover: Mapping Matthew Arnold's First N. American...
Purpose: This poster display presents some of the archival material uncovered over the course of two research trips to specific places that Matthew Arnold, Victorian poet & essayist, visited on...
View ArticleThe effects of adolescent ADHD medication on adult addiction susceptibility
During adolescence, the dopaminergic areas of the brain undergo continued development. These areas are often considered to be responsible for incentive-motivated and risk-taking behaviors [1]....
View ArticleMaritime Violence or A Contest of Wills?: Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and the British...
This poster reflects the research conducted and expresses the conclusions drawn from my 2013 Presidential Summer Scholar Grant. With that grant, I conducted research on piracy in the Persian/Arabian...
View ArticleGraphing Motion as a Concept Boundary in Pre-service Educators
Transitioning fluently between watching a movement happen and understanding how a graph of that motion can be created is an early boundary concept in physics. This project is an exploration of best...
View ArticleConceiving the Gothic: Embryology and Obstetrics in the Gothic Novel, 1764-1820
Conceiving the Gothic: Embryology, Obstetrics, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1820 is the first book-length study to argue that the Gothic novel in Britain emerged, at least in part, from a distinct...
View ArticleLiterary Cartography, Pedagogy, and Karen Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
This poster details an ongoing and expanding undergraduate research collaboration between the fields of American literature and Geographic Information Sciences (GIS) to further refine and develop the...
View ArticleEffect of Different Teaching Methods on Production of Mandarin Dipping Tone...
This study was designed to test the effectiveness of two teaching methods on production of Mandarin Tone 3 by English-speaking learners. The control group of students (n=12) received the traditional...
View ArticleLow Dose Amphetamine Exposure in Adolescence Cross Sensitizes Adult Mice to...
Amphetamine (AMPH) is a central nervous system stimulant and an effective treatment for ADHD among adolescents, in the form of Adderall®. The rise in the number of diagnoses of this disorder, however,...
View ArticleExamining the Citizenship Performance of Restaurant Servers
Job performance is commonly represented with the two dimensions of task performance and organizational citizenship (Borman & Motowidlo, 1993; Organ, 1997). This study investigates organizational...
View ArticleLocal existence of Dynamically Allowed Brackets and a local existence of a...
Dynamically Allowed Brackets are defined for given equations of motion for an N-dimensional mechanical system. The equations of motion may be explicitly time dependent, and may include explicitly time...
View Article43. Assessment and Improvement of Microbial Quality of Fresh Produce
Consumption of raw fruits and vegetables provides people with vital nutrients, vitamins, and enzymes essential for everyday function. Benefits from consuming raw produce include protection from many...
View Article44. Creative Symbolism in David Mazzuchelli’s Asterios Polyp
Abstract: Comics have become an increasingly important cultural phenomenon as evidenced by the multimillion dollar comic book movie industry. Their importance is even beginning to be seen in academia,...
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