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Truckload carriers operating under a Point-To-Point (PtP) dispatching method seek to minimize miles driven with empty loads. This results in driving tours keeping drivers away from their homes for weeks at a time causing high turnover rates...
2014-04.08 (iso8601)
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From the formation of reservations, Native Americans have faced many
difficulties and continue to deal with cultural barriers today. Particularly within a medical
setting, there is a worldview disconnect between western medicine and traditional...
2014-04-30 (iso8601)
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This creative nonfiction thesis is an attempt to create a conversation between personal and collective truths. All four of the essays share the subject of music: one focusing on a band’s strange performance, another on an artist and his album,...
2014-05-19 (iso8601)
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Synthesizing perspectives from Bruner (1957), and the Mind Only School of Buddhism, the current study examined the effect of a persons’ own behavior on knowledge activation. Both social cognitive psychology and the Mind Only School posit that...
2014-05-30 (iso8601)
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The novella follows a protagonist named Charlie Tinger and his daughter Rainy. The purpose of this novella was to highlight the complexity of a father-daughter relationship, projecting a quirky and special bond between the two. Written with the...
2014-05-21 (iso8601)
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In this investigation, six different endogenous thyroid hormone derivatives—T₄,
T₃, TA₄, TA₃, T₁-Amine, and N-Acetylated T₁-Amine—were tested to gain insight into
their permeability coefficients and efflux ratios across a monolayer of Madin-Darby...
2014-05-22 (iso8601)
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In today’s media driven society where images stand in for words, we see an increase of attractive people selling us ideas and products. We begin to view their attractiveness as powerful, and influential on our own opinions and they gain...
2014-06-02 (iso8601)
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Climate change, population growth, aging infrastructure, poor water management, and aquifer depletion are reducing US water supply. Increasing water scarcity will lead to an inability to support agriculture, industry, energy, and municipal demand...
2014-06-03 (iso8601)
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Past healthcare reform has been blinded by the presence of competing philosophies and
ideologies that ultimately yielded ineffective compromises or short-terms solutions. With
the ever-shifting political and economic landscapes, the future of our...
2014-05-21 (iso8601)
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Innovative nanoelectromechanical switches (NEMS) have the prospects to reduce device actuation voltages as compared to traditional semiconductor devices. Current research on NEMS seeks to avoid irreversible adhesion at the nanoscopic level, which...
2014-05-23 (iso8601)
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The newest pilot project at Tarangire National Park (TAR) is Income Generating
Programs (IGP) where community groups organize themselves around an activity that
earns income. TAR initiated the project by paying for ten members from each of the...
2014-04-22 (iso8601)
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The microwave backscatter properties of surf zone waves are analyzed using field observations.
By utilizing a preexisting, independent, water surface discrimination technique, the microwave returns were
extracted along individual waveforms and the...
2014-05-28 (iso8601)
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Monthly total precipitation and mean temperature climate surfaces, gridded to 30-arcseconds (≈1 km at the
equator) and available for all global land areas, are presented. These datasets are generated with a Delta downscaling
method, using the...
2013-09-18 (iso8601)
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Collisions of counter-propagating solitary waves are investigated experimentally.
Precision measurements of water-surface profiles are made with the use of the laser
induced fluorescence (LIF) technique. During the collision, the maximum wave...
2014-05-19 (iso8601)
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PREMISE OF RESEARCH: Anatomically preserved platanaceous inflorescences have been found in rocks of Late
Cretaceous (Coniacian) age at the Eden Main locality on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
METHODOLOGY: Specimens occur in calcium...
2014-05-28 (iso8601)
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A major difficulty in modeling multiphase flow in porous media is the emergence of trapped
phases. Our experiments demonstrate that gas can be trapped in either single-pores, multipores, or in large
connected networks. These large connected...
2014-05-30 (iso8601)
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We show how a distributed borehole flowmeter can be created from armored Fiber Optic
cables with the Active-Distributed Temperature Sensing (A-DTS) method. The principle is that in a flowing
fluid, the difference in temperature between a heated...
2014-05-06 (iso8601)
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Temperature anomalies can identify locations of seeps of groundwater into surface waters.
However, the method’s sensitivity to details such as thermometer burial depth, sediment material, seep
velocity, and surface water current are largely...
2014-05-22 (iso8601)
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Mutations in the metallo-protein Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1) cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in humans and an
expression level-dependent phenotype in transgenic rodents. We show that oral treatment with the therapeutic agent...
2014-06-04 (iso8601)
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AIM: Landscape management and conservation planning require maps of vegetation
composition and structure over large regions. Species distribution models
(SDMs) are often used for individual species, but projects mapping multiple species
are rarer....
2014-07 (iso8601)
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The olfactory bulb contains the first synaptic relay in the olfactory pathway, the sensory system in which odorants
are detected enabling these chemical stimuli to be transformed into electrical signals and, ultimately, the perception
of odor....
2014-05-12 (iso8601)
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