Since the early 1990s, Okinawans have creating music, which mixes traditional min yo’ (folk songs) and shima uta (Island songs) with jazz, reggae, folk, and other Western musical elements. The mixing of traditional and ...

A repair technique involving the containment of local bending of sandwich facesheet by strategically filling honeycomb core cells has been explored to improve the damage tolerance of impact damaged sandwich panels. The ...

We are presenting a new approach for mapping a continuous time controller to a discrete time controller. Methods traditionally used for this mapping include forward rectangular rule, bilinear rule and zero-pole matching. ...

Modified tractor alternator was designed and constructed to suit a 300 W low speed high altitude wind turbine. The tractor alternator did not produce the required power output design speed of the turbine. A modification ...

The issue of racial inequality in education has consistently been addressed through government policy in an attempt to solve the problem of discrimination in the American school system. The latest government attempt is ...

During the last 35 years, omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids have emerged as a topic of scientific scrutiny and public interest. In the 1970’s, epidemiological studies of Greenland Eskimos linked their diet, high in ...

The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine if students’ vocabulary acquisition is enhanced with the picture word inductive model (PWIM), a research-based method of vocabulary instruction. During instruction ...

Posture is the foundation for fitness. The most common cause of injury in adults is musculoskeletal. Prevention of such injuries starts with correct posture. Due to the limited information available on the relationship ...

Background: An estimated 30% of hospitalizations in the elderly may be drug-related. The Beers criteria are a list of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) generally considered unsafe in the elderly. These criteria ...