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Validation Of A Transcutaneous Bilirubin Nomogram In Identifying Hispanic Neonates At Risk For Hyperbilirubinemia
(Nursing, 2014-03-12)All newborns are at potential risk of adverse outcomes if they are not monitored for hyperbilirubinemia or if treatment for this problem is inadequate. Strategies are needed to accurately identify those newborns with ... -
The Validation Of The Trauma Assessment For Young Children
(Social Work, 2011-07-14)Young children experience a variety of traumatic experiences ranging from divorce and witnessing family violence, to living with parents who have addictive behaviors, to experiencing severe illness and injury, to experiencing ... -
Validation Of World English (WE) Listening Comprehension Scale
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)World English (WE) includes any type of dialectical English spoken around the world (Hinkel, 2005). In the present study, a WE listening test was developed. The original form of the test consisted of six scales measuring, ... -
VALUABLE PARTNERSHIPS: THE REGIONAL BENEFITS OF, INTERLOCAL CONTRACTS FOR TEXAS CITIES
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2015-05)Local governing units have long utilized interlocal contracts and agreements to create more effective and efficient provision of public goods and services by reducing costs, creating scalable economies, and eliminating ... -
The Value Of Customer Co-production In Developing New Products
(Marketing, 2007-08-23)The concept of customer co-production has been mentioned in the marketing literature on several occasions. The lack of a clear definition and the poor operationalization in previous literature stimulated the interest to ... -
VALUE OF MECHANICAL DESIGN IN BUILDINGS PROPER INFORMATION INPUTS SYSTEM CREATION 3-D MODELING
(2023-07-05)Mechanical design of a building is a crucial discipline that focuses on the comfortability of the occupants of the building. Functionality of proper systems within the building is essential in building success and proper ... -
Vanished Legacies And The Lost Culture Of I.M. Terrell High School In Segregated Fort Worth Texas
(History, 2013-03-20)From 1954 until 1973, the Fort Worth Independent School District worked to adhere to the ruling of Brown v. Board and entered several years of litigation brought about by the NAACP and attorney Clifford L. Davis. The ... -
Variability and Temporal Trends of Semivolatile Organic Compounds in Biological and Environmental Media
(2020-08-28)Exposure to semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in indoor environments and its potential impact on human health have been receiving increased public attention, because people in developed countries spend over 80% of ... -
Variability Of As-constructed Properties Of HMA And Their Relation To Pay Factors And Rutting Resistance: A Case Study
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-12)During the last decade, Texas has under gone a huge reconstruction of its major and strategic highways in order to improve transportation and prepare for future population and traffic growth. The population is estimated ... -
Variants Of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS): Convex vs. Non-convex, Piecewise-linear vs. Smooth And Sequential Algorithms.
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-10-23)Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) is a statistical modeling method used to represent high-dimensional data with interactions. It uses different algorithms to select the terms to be included in the approximation ... -
Variation In Commercial Property Tax Appraisal Accuracy In Texas
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2013-03-20)Article 8 of the Texas Constitution requires property taxation to be "equal and uniform," and state law requires nearly all real property to be assessed at 100% of market value. Despite these requirements, evidence exists ... -
The Variations Of Geomagnetic Energy And Solar Irradiance And Their Impacts On Earth's Upper Atmosphere
(Physics, 2014-03-10)The primary energy sources of Earth's upper atmosphere are the solar irradiance and geomagnetic energy including Joule heating and particle precipitation. Various data and models are utilized to investigate the variations ... -
Vascular Stent Analysis
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)It is important for cardiologist to understand the stresses and strains the stent experiences during deployment. We created a 3-D model of the coiled stent which is exported into ANSYS creating the finite element model. ... -
Vehicle Suspension Optimization For Stochastic Inputs
(Mechanical Engineering, 2012-04-11)In the present thesis, a simulation based numerical method has been proposed for optimization of vehicle suspension system for stochastic inputs from random road surface profiles. Road surfaces are classified in based upon ... -
Vehicular Emissions Models Using Mobile6.2 And Field Data
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-09-17)Regression models to predict vehicular emissions for different categories of vehicles for different pollutants are presented in this thesis. Vehicular emissions are affected by numerous variables which, among others, include ... -
Venezuela; A Case Study
(Political Science, 2012-07-25)A case study of Venezuela is provided to test Marxist theory of political development. The first hypothesis is: three characteristics are inherent in any politically developed nation-State:There is an inherent class divide ... -
The Venomous Rattlesnakes And New World Coral Snakes: Molecular Systematics, Biogeography And The Evolution Of Venom Systems
Middle America is one of the most biologically diverse regions in the world, however it is also one with some of the highest rates of biodiversity loss. Reptiles are especially diverse in this region, and are a very important ... -
Verbal Behavior Of Mice And Men: Preference For Multiple Schedules Of Reinforcement As An Indicator Of The Evolution Of Verbal Behavior
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)The evolution of verbal behavior in humans is believed to have appeared in the form of a complex operant behavior. According to behaviorists, the development verbal behavior which is exclusive to Homo sapiens could have ... -
The Verbs Of Esther: A Discourse Analysis Of A Post-exilic Text
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)The Verbs of Esther: A Discourse Analysis of a Post-Exilic Text seeks to describe the narrative main clause verbs, the quotation formula verbs, and the verbs in quotations found in the text of Esther. These verbs provide ... -
VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF POWER CONVERTERS FOR USE IN FUTURE POWER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES
(2022-05-23)Electronics are more widely penetrating almost every area of society and as they do, the demand to supply them with regulated power increases considerably. The scale of the electronic power distribution systems needed ...