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Increasing Food Accessibility Among Urban Poor: Providing An Alternative Solution Through A City-wide Community Garden Plan
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-12)Community Gardens have been entitled as an emerging solution to food security and injustice issues especially among socially disempowered communities. US Department of Agriculture has designated more than half of the census ... -
Increasing Lipophilicity Of Redox Active Ruthenium Complexes As A Means To Enhance Cytotoxicity And Reduce Animal Toxicity
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2013-03-20)The dinuclear and monomeric ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes [(phen)2Ru(tatpp)Ru(phen)2]Cl4 (P) and monomer [(phen)2Ru(tatpp)]Cl2 (MP) are promising candidates for anticancer drug development in terms of the observed ... -
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 ... -
“INCREASING RENEWABLE ENERGY POTENTIAL OF LANDFILL GAS BY ELECTROCATALYTIC CONVERSION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TO METHANE AT LOW TEMPERATURE.”
(2024-01-10)The conversion of carbon dioxide into methane at a low temperature has great potential to reduce current international environmental issues like global warming and will create new sources of renewable energy. The overall ... -
INCREASING THE SAFETY OF BICYCLISTS USING A CYCLIST BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE AND A SMARTPHONE BASED APPLICATION
(2023-08-23)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2025** ABSTRACT: Bicycling is beneficial for health, the environment, road users’ flexibility, and personal expenses. Compared to motor vehicles, they are an active ... -
Incremental Retrieval And Ranking Of Complex Patterns From Text Repositiories
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-09-17)As the volume of information accessible via the electronic medium (such as the Internet) is staggeringly large and growing rapidly, users have to sift through vast reservoirs of information to retrieve relevant data of ... -
"Independence, Liberty, And Justice": The Birth, Life, And Death Of Haden Edwards' Fredonian Rebellion
(History, 2010-03-03)To populate Texas, the government of Mexico encouraged foreign empresarios like Stephen F. Austin to bring families and settle. One of those men, Haden Edwards, hoped to turn a profit with his grant in the area around ... -
Independent Source Extraction Applied To Radar Imaging
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Multiple scattering and random interactions among scattering elements and between the scatterers and the background adversely affect the radar image quality and target detection capability. In radar images formed using ... -
INDEPENDENT SOURCES OF RELATIVE CLAUSE PROCESSING DIFFICULTY: EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIAN
(2016-05-11)This study investigates the influence of syntactic, semantic, and frequency-of-occurrence information, as well as role of memory in the comprehension of complex sentences. This was done by examining the processing of Russian ... -
Indexing, Querying, Prediction, and Integration for Network-constrained Moving Objects Databases
(2018-05-14)The emergence and presence of satellites and GPS devices have led to the creation of a huge amounts of spatial and spatio-temporal data, which had significant effects on creating new applications to analyze and mine these ... -
Indi'n Humor, Tricksters, And Stereotype In Selected Works Of Gerald Vizenor, Thomas King, And Sherman Alexie
(English, 2012-07-25)Humor in American Indian literature is a popular and important area of study. Yet, to date few full-length studies have compared the role of humor in Gerald Vizenor, Thomas King, and Sherman Alexie. This study offers a ... -
The Individual And Collective Effect Of US Colonialism In Puerto Rico: A Scale Construction And Validation, With Implications For Social Work Education And Practice
(Social Work, 2012-04-11)"Understanding the individual and collective psychology of the people of Puerto Rico requires an understanding of both the history of its colonialism and the U.S. laws that have helped shaped the social world of the Puerto ... -
The Individual Approach To Contact: How Personality Predicts Intergroup Contact Behavior
(Psychology, 2013-03-20)Personality has been shown to be associated with prejudice levels and intergroup contact has been shown to reduce negative outgroup attitudes and discrimination, but until now the motivating factors that encourage naturalistic ... -
Individual Differences in Influenceability and Anti-Influenceability
(2017-06-12)Using a dispositional strategy, two studies investigated individual differences in three types of influenceability and two types of anti-influenceability. Study 1 replicated the majority of consistent results found in ... -
Individual Human Capital And Performance: An Empirical Study In Thailand
(Business Administration, 2013-07-22)According to the resource-based view of the firm, human capital is a source of sustained competitive advantage of the firm (McMahan, Virick, & Wright, 1999; Wright & McMahan, 1992; Wright, McMahan, & McWilliams, 1994; ... -
Individual Motivational Factors Impacting United States Air Force Reserve Recruiting
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-12)This research seeks to discern the latent motivational factors that prompt individuals to join the Air Force Reserve. It is hypothesized that the decision to affiliate has a large non-economic component; this study also ... -
Individual, Family, School, And Community Predictors For Depression And Self-esteem: A Comparative Study Between Asian And Latino Adolescents
(Social Work, 2012-07-25)The purpose of this study was to identify the predictors within the family, school, and community environments of Hispanic and Asian adolescents' that may predict mental health (depression and self-esteem). Another aim was ... -
Indoor Air Quality In Schools: An Investigation Of The Impact Of Outdoor Air Quality, School Layout, And Room Type
(Environmental & Earth Science, 2014-09-17)Indoor air quality (IAQ) in educational facilities is a very important aspect of the educational process because it may affect the students and staff health and performance. This study was conducted during the 2012-2013 ... -
Induced emotions on shoot decisions
(2017-04-24)The purpose of this experiment was to examine the effect of emotion on shoot decision bias. Student participants from The University of Texas at Arlington were randomly assigned to one of five emotion induction conditions ... -
Inducing vibro-tactile sensation at mesoscale
(2018-12-18)Haptics, the feeling of touch, has primarily been used to provide a person a general sensation such as vibration using a joystick or cellphone. But haptics has gradually developed to a stage where it is investigated for ...