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A Pilot Evaluation of Jail Programming
(2016-05-06)
Women within the corrections system in the United States has reached staggering numbers. Suicide in the United States corrections system is the leading cause of natural death. This research provides an examination of ...
On the Quantum Spaces of Some Quadratic Regular Algebras of Global Dimension Four
(2016-05-10)
A quantum $\mathbb{P}^3$ is a noncommutative analogue of a polynomial ring on four variables, and, herein, it is taken to be a regular algebra of global dimension four. It is well known that if a generic quadratic quantum ...
MAXIMIZING USE OF AIR-SIDE ECONOMIZATION, DIRECT AND INDIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLING FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS
(2016-05-10)
Data centers house information technology (IT) equipment such as servers and network switches which are vital for our networked modern society by providing digital data storage, data processing and connectivity. Data ...
⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr AS A POTENTIAL FINGERPRINT FOR DETERMINING THE PROVENANCE OF TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS ASSOCIATED WITH HYDRAULIC FRACTURING ACTIVITIES IN THE BARNETT SHALE, TEXAS
(2016-05-11)
Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in unconventional drilling that utilizes hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas. The Barnett Shale in north central Texas has been a significant contributor to ...
DESIGN AND STIFFNESS OPTIMIZATION OF QUADRI-DIRECTIONAL COMPOSITE GRID LATTICE STRUCTURES
(2016-05-11)
Composite grid structures are rib stiffeners connected to each other rigidly in a pattern or a lattice such that the whole grid pattern has certain smeared stiffness property and has a certain structural behavior. The main ...
Computational Analysis of Impact Loading on Wafer Level Chip Scale Packages Mounted on Printed Circuit Boards of Varying Thickness
(2016-05-10)
In the electronic industry one of the popular package is Chip Scale Package (CSP) due to its small form factor and low cost. To meet the need of new functionality and portability of the recent devices, CSPs’ have been most ...
A SWITCHED CAPACITOR BASED TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER FOR DETECTION OF HAB THROUGH OPTICAL SENSING
(2016-05-10)
In the recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the manifestation of harmful algal blooms. A certain species called cyanobacteria that is commonly present in freshwater bodies are found to release a class of ...
Sensitivity of the Younger Dryas climate to changes in freshwater, orbital, and greenhouse gas forcing in comprehensive climate models
(2016-05-11)
The Younger Dryas cooling event (~12,900 years before present) was the most recent abrupt climate change in the geologic record where climate for the Northern Hemisphere returned to a near-glacial state. The cause of this ...
TOWARDS BETTER USABILITY OF QUERY SYSTEMS FOR MASSIVE ULTRA-HETEROGENEOUS GRAPHS: NOVEL APPROACHES OF QUERY FORMULATION AND QUERY SPECIFICATION
(2016-05-05)
There is a pressing need to tackle the usability challenges in querying massive, ultraheterogeneous entity graphs which use thousands of node and edge types in recording
millions to billions of entities (persons, products, ...
Willing to Help, but Lacking Discernment: The Effects of Victim Group Size on Donation Behaviors
(2016-05-11)
Researchers and practitioners in the nonprofit domain have long lamented the tendency of people to offer greater aid to a smaller number of victims, in essence de-valuing the lives of victims as the number of victims grows. ...