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Overcoming Triple Oppression: Identity, Power, And Feminism Among Women Of Mexican Ancestry In Texas, 1960-1980
(History, 2008-04-22)
The Mexican American civil rights movement surfaced in the 1960s and 1970s as a direct response to blatant institutional discrimination and neglect. The participation of women within the movement, however, has been ...
The Lattice Boltzmann Method For Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications
(Aerospace Engineering, 2008-09-17)
An analysis of lattice Boltzmann method is presented in this thesis. This analysis contrast with the traditional lattice Boltzmann work, where complex fluids are considered with extended properties. Focus of the current ...
Ground Reaction Force Profiles In ACL Reconstructed Female Athletes
(Kinesiology, 2008-08-08)
Injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) has become a global topic of
research, as the number of injuries is staggering and continues to increase each year
because the underlying elements contributing to this injury ...
Performance Evaluation Of Greedy Heuristic For SIP Analyzer In H.264/SVC
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-08-08)
The latest scalable video coding standard, H.264/SVC uses many components of H.264/AVC standard to maintain backward compatibility and also has proposed many tools to support scalable video coding with increased coding ...
Determining The Flow Characteristics Of A Perfusion Device For Donor Heart Transport
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-08-08)
Current technology has limits organ transport for transplantation to static storage, thereby reducing the reasonable distance of travel. Continuous machine perfusion has been proposed as a viable alternative to improving ...
Supramolecular Chemistry On Carbon Dioxide
(Chemistry, 2008-04-22)
This dissertation describes approaches towards designs, syntheses, characterizations, and applications of supramolecular chemistry on carbon dioxide. Chapter 1 briefly overviews the field of supramolecular chemistry and ...
An Influenza Virus Molecular Infection Model And Discrete Event, Stochastic Simulation.
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-08-08)
Influenza virus is responsible for the greatest pandemic in human history causing 20 - 40 million deaths worldwide during the 1918 flu season. In 1997 fears of a future pandemic arose with the discovery of a new strain of ...
Biaxial Mechanical Characterization Of Porcine Periosteum
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-08-08)
Periosteum is multipotent tissue responsible for cortical bone deposition and is important in fracture repair. Research indicates the periosteum is mediated by similar mechanical signals to those that mediate bone growth ...
On Reducing Call Drop Outs By Improving Bit Error Rate Performance In A GSM Mobile Communications System
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-08-08)
Call Drop Out is one of the most annoying problems in Mobile Communications. It is one of the most important Quality of Service (QoS) indicators for a mobile carrier. Over the years, many strategies have been proposed to ...
Dispensationalism And United States Foreign Policy With Israel
(Political Science, 2008-08-08)
I incorporated various public opinion surveys regarding the nature of Dispensational concepts to convey the prevalence of Dispensational theology in America. I incorporated demographic data regarding survey participants ...