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EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE LEADS YOUTHS CONVICTED OF SERIOUS OFFENSES TO SUBSEQUENT CRIMINAL OFFENDING AS ADULTS
(2019-12-06)A growing health issue in the United States is violence, specifically violence against children and youths. Research finds that children and youth are steadily exposed to violence during their daily routines. Thus, ... -
Expressions For Bond Stress Of A Tension Splice In Steel Reinforced Concrete
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)The aim of the research is to develop expressions for the bond stress at a tension splice in reinforced concrete. Many experiments have been conducted inorder to ascertain the relationship between appropriate variables and ... -
EXTEND THE SENSING BOUNDARY OF MOBILE SYSTEMS: SECURITY AND NEW APPLICATIONS
(2021-04-28)The exploding growth of mobile devices like smartphones and wearables has envisioned various applications, which are developed to collect a wide spectrum of data using on-board device sensors and process them to serve ... -
An Extensible Self-adapting Dissemination Framework For High-speed Continuous XML Streaming Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2012-07-25)The efficient dissemination of data has become increasingly important with recent advances in technology that provide us immediate access to information at our fingertips. The insatiable demand for data has increased ... -
Extension Of A Progressive Failure, Energy Dissipation, Composite Tailoring Concept To A Healing Configuration
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2011-10-11)A composite failure tailoring concept that results in a yield type response under tension has been proposed, modeled, and experimentally verified in prior research. The concept capitalizes upon a sequential, progressive ... -
Extent Of HIV Stigma Among HIV Positive Healthcare Workers: A Mixed Methods Approach
(Nursing, 2013-03-20)Regardless of practice settings, healthcare workers (HCWs) in Sub-Saharan Africa are either infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. This mixed methods study measured the extent of HIV/AIDS stigma and the relationship between ... -
The Extent Of Social Disparities In Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-03-10)The argument of race and segregation is an age-old debate. Nevertheless, in 2013 there are still segregated black and Hispanic neighborhoods experiencing high levels of poverty despite the Fair Housing Act, inclusionary ... -
Extra-Curricular Engagement and Burnout Resilience in Social Work: An Integrative Literature Review
(2023-10-12)Burnout has become increasingly prevalent among helping professionals, and specifically social workers, in recent years (Evans et al., 2021; Siebert, 2005). Even more concerning are recent findings indicating that burnout ... -
Extracting and Modeling Useful Information from Videos for Supporting Continuous Queries
(2016-12-20)Automating video stream processing for inferring situations of interest has been an ongoing challenge. This problem is currently exacerbated by the volume of surveillance/monitoring videos generated. Currently, manual or ... -
EXTRACTING CLINICAL EVENT SEQUENCE BY USING ASSOCIATION RULE MINING TO PREDICT CLINICAL EVENTS FROM HEALTH RECORDS
(2021-12-13)Data mining is the process of extracting useful information from large amounts of data. Data mining has been around for a long time, and there are many multiple methods of performing data mining. However, the abundance of ... -
Extractive Summarization and Simplification of Scholarly Literature
(2020-05-14)Research papers and journals have always played a crucial role in the field of research and development. However, these research papers usually have a complex usage of language which limits the range of target readers. The ... -
Fabrication And Characeterization Of Granular Magnetic Gold Nanoparticles
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)In recent years, gold and magnetic nanoparticles have showed great potential in biomedical applications. Magnetic nanoparticles can be used in both in- vivo and in-vitro applications such as drug and gene delivery, ... -
Fabrication And Characterization Of Barium Titanate Thin Film On Polycrystalline Nickel Substrate
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2013-10-22)Ferroelectric BaTiO₃(BTO) thin films were deposited on polycrystalline nickel disks and silicon wafer substrates by rf magnetron sputtering. Nickel oxide (NiO) and nanocrystalline nickel (nc-Ni) layers were used as interfacial ... -
Fabrication And Characterization Of Cobalt-Diamond-like-Carbon (Co-DLC) Nanocomposites
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2008-04-22)In recent years, synthesis of magnetic nanocomposites has been receiving significant attention. These nanocomposites offer opportunities to develop active nanomaterials with various applications like magnetic data storage ... -
FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LOW-DENSITY POLYMERIC MATERIALS WITH 3D MICROSTRUCTURES
(2015-12-04)Low-density polymeric materials with octet-truss and quad-truss 3D microstructures were studied. The materials with 3D microstructures were created using digital light processing technology with polyethylene glycol (PEG). ... -
Fabrication And Characterization Of Single Electron Device And Study Of Energy Filtering In Single Electron Transport
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)Single electron devices, in which transport of single electrons is precisely controlled, hold a great promise as important components of future electronic devices and sensors. However, technical challenges have prevented ... -
FABRICATION AND EXAMINATION OF MAGNETIC BACTERIAL CELLULOSE AS A MATERIAL FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
(2020-06-08)Bacterial cellulose (BC) is one of the most abundant biopolymers in nature. Several attributes such as facilitative modification, high pore size/porosity, able to mass produce as well as biocompatibility renders BC a ... -
Fabrication and In Vitro Characterization of an Implant for the Detection of Metastatic Cancer Cells
(2018-08-03)Greater than 90% of cancer related deaths are due to metastasis (Hayes & Wicha, 2011). Since current conventional techniques detect the disease by the time that it has become systemic, our lab has developed a hydrogel based ... -
Fabrication And Mechanical Characterization Of A Two-ply Cross Fiber Stent And Fibers Comprising Blends Of Poly(L-lactic Acid)
(Biomedical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Recent studies indicate that stabilization of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques is critical for minimizing acute coronary syndromes. In this regard a new biodegradable stent design, the Two-ply cross fiber stent, has been ... -
Fabrication and modification of implantable micro-probes for neuro-studies
(2014-09-17)In this work, different types of implantable probes fabricated on Si and polyimide substrates for sensing neurotransmitters, recording extracellular action potentials and stimulating the neurons have been developed. Several ...