Skin shades, gender, country of origin, accents, and even our names make a big difference in how we are perceived, welcomed, beaten up, appreciated, or degraded. All of us might have been carrying a scar of being labeled ...

Effecting change in adult communication patterns within an interdisciplinary teaching-learning environment can be challenging. The Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system provides a state-of-the-art wearable recorder ...

In the current era of the global supply chain, integration of information technology and acceleration of competitiveness are necessary for an effective supply chain management (SCM). The SCM is considered as a competitive ...

Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Studies have shown that children in low-income families are at increased risk for dental caries due to improper feeding practices, lack of parental education, ...

In this econometric project I look at legislative compensation across the fifty states to see if market theories hold; market theory would suggest that higher legislative pay would yield better performance. My hypothesis ...

A proposed mechanism for plant invasions is modification of the soil in ways that enhance the growth of the invader relative to native species, but, to date, few clear examples have been documented. Two greenhouse experiments ...

The energy dissipation due to the failure of composites is of particular interest for crash applications involving dynamic loading. Separation of layers or delamination which can occur in opening (mode-I) is one of the key ...

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 ...