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Place-names, Conquest, And Empire: Spanish And Amerindian Conceptions Of Place In The New World
(History, 2011-09-12)
This research corrects the one-sided historiography of toponyms in the New World, which focus only on the European imposition of place-names, viewed by many postmodernist scholars as a way to oppress and suppress the native ...
Pediatric nurses' journeys to relieve children's post-operative pain
(Nursing, 2010-07-19)
This study sought to bridge the gap of nurses' knowledge of pain management and translation into clinical practice by describing pediatric nurses' negotiation of the bureaucracy of caring. The purpose of this study was to ...
Mechanisms Of Biomaterial Mediated Fibrotic Responses And Strategies To Improve Tissue Reactions To Biomaterial Implants
(Biomedical Engineering, 2010-07-19)
Despite considerable advancements in biomaterial synthesis and modification techniques, most tissue engineering scaffolds elicit fibrotic reactions resulting in implant encapsulation, secluding cells and/or therapeutic ...
Sedimentology, ichnology, depositional environment interpretation, and reservoir characterization in the Cotton Valley Formation Sandstone in the Amoco Grace Lowry #1, Harrison County, Texas
(Geology, 2010-07-19)
The Cotton Valley formation in east Texas and north Louisiana is a proven hydrocarbon producing tight gas sand reservoir. Understanding the depositional environment, sandstone body geometries and reservoir properties are ...
A Tale Of Three Phytopathogens: Impact Of Transposable Elements On Genome Evolution
(Biology, 2010-07-19)
The genus Phytophthora harbors some notorious plant pathogens like Phytophthora infestans (causal of Irish potato famine), Phytophthora sojae (soybean rot agent), and Phytophthora ramorum (responsible for sudden oak ...
How Adult Acquired Hearing Loss Affects Marital Satisfaction
(Social Work, 2010-07-19)
Hearing loss can adversely affect a marital relationship when a person becomes deafened after the marriage or commitment to cohabitate. This population is growing more quickly than hearing loss professionals had anticipated. ...
Conditional Confidence Intervals Of Process Capability Indices Following Rejection Of Preliminary Tests
(Mathematics, 2010-07-19)
Finding an ordinary confidence interval of an unknown parameter is well known, but finding a conditional confidence interval following rejection of a preliminary test is not so noted, especially for finding a conditional ...
How Age Of First Dating Experience, Number Of Dating Partners, And Length Of Relationship Relates To Dating Violence Victimization
(Social Work, 2010-07-19)
Dating violence is a serious social and health problem for young adolescent in many parts of the world. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between three independent variables: (1) age of first ...
Peak Stress Of Composite Multiple-hole Laminates With And Without Patch
(Aerospace Engineering, 2010-07-19)
In repairing of composite structures, the damage in the composite laminate is usually removed in the form of circular cutouts which results in holes in the laminate. Then a patch laminate is adhesively bonded to the damaged ...
Dispersion Engineering With Leaky-mode Resonance Structures
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-07-19)
In the thesis, a numerical method for the analysis of optical pulses propagation through leaky-mode/guided-mode resonance (GMR) structures is implemented by integrating a Fourier decomposition technique and the rigorous ...