This narrative inquiry focused on what four low-SES single mothers had to say about their aspirations for and support systems they have for their children. Discussions with the mothers involved a mix of topics. The four ...

The Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) technique is widely used to dynamically characterize metals and is increasingly being used to characterize non-metallic materials such as fiber reinforced polymeric composite materials. ...

This dissertation proposes improvements in the numerical algorithm for the dynamics of flows that involve discontinuities and broadband fluctuations simultaneously. These two flow features suggest numerical strategies of ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death in the United States and worldwide. Among the various CVDs, coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death among both men and women. Of the various ...

This dissertation develops operational methods for minimization of energy consumption of manufacturing equipments. Using the frameworks developed, a significant amount of energy can be saved when non-bottleneck and/or ...

In survival analysis and in the analysis of the life tables an important biometric function of interest is the mean residual life function (MRLF) M whose value at age t is the average future life time given that a subject ...

Cytochrome b561, a transmembrane heme protein present in neurotransmitter storage vesicles, shuttles electrons from the cytosolic Asc to the intragranullar matrix to regenerate Asc. Although Cyt b561 has been purified, ...

Parental monitoring, child social competence, and child academic success were examined as mediators explaining the relationship between Oregon's Model of Parent Management Training (PMTO) and long-term changes in deviant ...

Business competition requires organizations to increase their products’ quality and reduce cost at the same time. Statistical process control (SPC) techniques are important tools for monitoring process performance over ...

There are large disparities in physical health within psychiatric population. These disparities are made greater by the poor health behaviors of the psychiatric population in general. Change in health behaviors is aided ...