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Walkout: The Footsteps Of Latino Youth Activism
(Sociology, 2009-09-16)
This qualitative study analyzes contemporary social action through the lens of Latino youth activism. A total of 11 people including Latino student demonstrators and non-demonstrators and teachers/administrators all shared ...
Nonrigid Image Registration By The Deformation Based Grid Generation
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)
A novel nonrigid image registration algorithm is developed using a well-established mathematic work known as deformation based grid generation. The deformation based grid generation is capable to generate a grid ...
Capturing the Teachable Moments Online
(Magna Publications, 2009)
Describes methods to capture teachable moments in asynchronous platforms
At Play In Her Clearing: Centering The Personal Experience Of Disability Within Irigarayan Philsophy
(English, 2009-09-16)
From a theoretical perspective, the disabled woman can be seen as `doubly othered' within patriarchal culture. Because the disabled woman faces this dual otherness, she is barred from both masculine language and able-bodied ...
Increasing Localization Precision In Sensor Networks With Mobile Beacons - A Genetic Path Planning Approach
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)
This work describes a genetic algorithm based approach to approximate an optimal path for a mobile beacon node in a grid of stationary wireless sensors. As the beacon moves over the field of sensors it broadcasts its ...
Signal Processing In Radar And Non-radar Sensor Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
This dissertation studies six topics within the area of radar andnon-radar sensor networks from a signal processing perspective:radar sensor networks (RSN) waveform design and performance analysis(chapter 2), blind speed ...
The Facial Masculinity Of Women In Sex Segregated Occupations
(Sociology, 2009-09-16)
This purpose of the study was to bring more definition to the "problem" of occupational sex segregation, specifically why male-dominated occupations like engineering, firefighting, and the military still remain sex segregated. ...
Access To Mental Health Care: Clients Perception Of Services Provided By Agape Clinic And Community Care
(Social Work, 2009-09-16)
The purpose of this study was to identify whether there is a relationship between acculturation and utilization of mental health services among U.S. born and non-U.S. born Hispanics in the United States. Furthermore, the ...
Evolutionary Morphology Of The Speckled Rattlesnakes (viperidae: Crotalus Mitchellii Group)
(Biology, 2009-09-16)
I examined various facets of morphological variation and evolution in the speckled rattlesnake (Crotalus mitchellii) species group. I performed three separate, but related, studies pertaining to the following topics: body ...
Direct Numerical Simulation Of Interaction Of Detonation Wave With Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)
The propagation of a shock or detonation wave through a reactive mixture has been the subject of research for over a century. The basic understanding has been shaped by one-dimensional Euler models, namely, those of ...