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Transformational Leaders Wanted: Dallas Independent School District's Aspiring Principals Program
(Education, 2013-03-20)
The purpose of this research was to explore and describe the development, implementation, andimpact of the Dallas Independent School District's (ISD) Aspiring Principals Program. This study of principal preparation has ...
New Bonded Phase Materials For Separtions
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2013-03-20)
Separations play an important role in day to day life as well as in science and technology. This dissertation focuses on novel and versatile techniques involving synthesizing new bonded chiral stationary phases (CSPs) and ...
Precision And Mobility Analysis For Microrobot Design And Control
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-03-20)
The emerging field of microrobotics extends from manipulation of nanostructures to 3D assembly of micromachines, and to control of motile bacteria as manipulation tools. Microrobots are not necessarily small themselves but ...
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 ...
Data Mining Based Threshold Development For Novelty Detection
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2013-03-20)
The objective of this dissertation is to develop thresholds for novelty detection with applications to statistical process control (SPC). SPC is a widely used technique for improving process and product quality. The ...
An Evaluation Of Failure Modes For Cast Iron And Ductile Iron Water Pipes
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2013-03-20)
The need to evaluate the performance of cast iron and ductile iron water pipes is of great importance since they are the most common pipe materials for water mains. The concern in the water industry is about the cost ...
Chemostratigraphy And Paleoenvironmental Significance Of The Pennsylvanian Smithwick Formation, Northern Llano Uplift Region, Texas
(Geology, 2013-03-20)
The Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian-Moscovian) Smithwick Formation of Central Texas has been previously described as a marine transgressive, fairly homogeneous and fine-grained dark shale sequence with varying local ...
Computational Study Of Heat Transfer Enhancement For A Dimpled Surface In A Channel
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-03-20)
Heat transfer augmentation techniques have gained great importance in different engineering applications to deal with thermal management issues. In this work, a numerical investigation was carried out to see the effects ...
Biomarkers: Review And Application To The Eagle Ford Shale Formation
(Geology, 2013-03-20)
Biomarkers have become an integral part of oil exploration. Gas Chromatography (-Mass Spectrometry) was performed to an oil sample to acquire biomarkers from the sample.The presence, lack of, or abundance of a given compound ...
Comparison Of Measured And Predicted Response Of Six MnRoad Asphalt Test Sections
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2013-03-20)
The study, sponsored by MnRoad, aimed to compare the measured and predicted values of strains and stresses for six cells 33, 34, 35, 77, 78 and 79 of the third MnRoad experiments. Cells 33, 34 and 35 were constructed for ...