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Examining The Impact Of Opioid Withdrawal On Pain Processing: The Influence Of Social Isolation Stress
(Psychology, 2011-07-14)The use of opioids as a traditional treatment for acute and chronic pain has been severely hindered by the addictive nature of these substances and the pain relief they provide. Clinical reports suggest that opioid addicts ... -
Examining the Influence of Information Technology on Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes
(2022-12-20)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 12/19/2024** ABSTRACT: Information Technology (IT) has radically changed our daily lives and it has the potential to help us adopt healthy behaviors and improve health ... -
EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF SKELETAL MUSCLE OXYGEN METABOLISM ON MICROVASCULAR REPERFUSION IN RESPONSE TO ACUTE ISCHEMIA
(2019-12-03)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the single leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States (and the world), with a death rate greater than cancer and chronic lower respiratory disease (emphysema, bronchitis, ... -
Examining The Role Of Need For Closure In Psychological Distress Following Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)The present study investigated the relationship between Need for Closure (NFC) and psychological distress after receiving the results of genetic tests for breast cancer. One hundred and eight women recruited from the ... -
Examining the Social Effects of Community-Based Mentoring on At-Risk Adolescent Girls
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to examine which strategies of mentoring, if any, have a positive impact on adolescent girls who engage in potentially at-risk social behaviors, which may negatively ... -
Excellence in education : Examination for the Certification of Educators in Texas (ExCET) program.
The Texas Education Agency contracted with National Evaluation Systems, Inc., of Amherst, Massachusetts, to design and develop 63 separate tests for the Examination for the Certification of Educators in Texas (ExCET) ... -
Exception Handling Using Class Diversity
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Software reliability has been received more and more attention not only in mission critical system but also in commercial software system. Developing robust software must consider faults caused by abnormal situations or ... -
Executive Compensation And Idiosyncratic Risk
(Finance & Real Estate, 2014-09-17)Executive compensation is a very heavily researched area in finance, accounting and management over the last three decades. However, there are several inconclusive issues. One of them is the relationship between idiosyncratic ... -
Executive Compensation, Corporate Tax Aggressiveness and Financial Reporting Aggressiveness: Evidence from SFAS 123R
(2017-05-08)Using a variety of research methods, prior empirical research finds that executive compensation influences the behavior of managers, particularly with decisions involving risk. These studies show that, when executive ... -
Exergame Use As A Gateway To The Adoption Of And Adherence To Sport-specific And General Physical Activity
Despite increasing the amount of information regarding the need for regular physical activity, rates of inactivity have not seen a corresponding decrease. The aim of the current study was to determine whether exergame use ... -
Exergy Analysis of a Pulse Detonation Engine Linear Power Generator
(2016-05-11)The fuel efficiency of a power generator is a key metric for evaluating its performance. The common engineering practice is to determine the thermal efficiency of the system by applying the conservation of energy also known ... -
Existence of Exact Zero Divisors and Totally Reflexive Modules in Artinian Rings
(2017-05-10)In this dissertation, we consider commutative local Artinian rings (A, m, k), which are rings that satisfy the descending chain condition on ideals. First, we investigate the existence of exact zero divisors in Artinian ... -
Exit Exam Requirements And High School Graduation: A Texas Perspective
(Education, 2014-07-14)The movement towards exit exams requirements prior to a student graduating from high school is one of the most prominent developments on the education policy landscape nationwide. Previous research on the impact of exit ... -
Expanding Beyond The Foundations Of Decision-making: Perceptual Differences Of Risk Between Resources
(Psychology, 2011-03-03)This research examined how resources such as life, food, and money are calculated in decision-making. Presently, the field assumes that various types of resources have the same value when a choice is being made. The study ... -
Expanding the Intellectual Property Knowledge Base at University Libraries: Collaborating with Patent and Trademark Resource Centers
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018-03-21)Patent and Trademark Resource Centers are located in libraries throughout the U.S., with 43 being in academic libraries. With the importance of incorporating a knowledge of intellectual property (IP) and patent research ... -
EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION-BASED LIKELIHOOD INFERENCE FOR COM-POISSON CURE RATE MODEL WITH INTERVAL CENSORED DATA
(2016-12-02)A cure rate or long-term survival model is a model for survival data with the presence of a cure fraction. In this study, we consider the analysis of a cure rate model with interval-censored data, which is one of the most ... -
EXPEDITIOUS APPROACH TO 3,3’-BIS-SILYL BINOLS, BIPHENOLS, AND 3,3’-BIS-SILYL PHOSPHORAMIDITES ENABLED BY CATALYTIC C–H SILYLATION WITH A TRACELESS ACETAL DIRECTING GROUP
(2021-05-10)The research described in this dissertation is on two different projects namely i) Syntheses of 3,3’-bis functionalized BINOL and biphenol compounds, ii) Syntheses of 3,3’-bis silyl-BINOL-based phosphoramidites. The first ... -
Experiencing Technology Integration In The Collegiate Classroom: From The Perspectives Of Itinerant Adjunct Language Instructors
(Education, 2015)In the last 40 years, the adjunct instructor population has become the largest group in higher education. Despite their numbers, they continue to be largely ignored and, most importantly, untrained. Their itinerancy forces ... -
Experiential Learning and Open Education: Partnering with Students to Evaluate OER Accessibility
(Pacific University Press, 2018)This chapter focuses on an open textbook evaluation project undertaken by the Open Education Librarian and a student intern at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). UTA offers a Minor in Disability Studies, an ...