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Not My Father's Game: Immigration, Major League Baseball And The Dominican Republic
(Anthropology, 2009-09-16)
Since the 1980's the number of Latino players, specifically, Dominicans, on major and minor league baseball teams has increased significantly. This demographic shift is due, in large part, to Major League Baseball (MLB) ...
Development Of Spectral And Wavelet Time-of-flight Methods For Propagating Shock And Detonation Waves
(Aerospace Engineering, 2009-09-16)
An accurate time delay estimate for a propagating disturbance, including an estimate of its uncertainty, is important in many areas of science. Several techniques were developed for determining the propagation time of a ...
A Refined True Triaxial Apparatus For Testing Unsaturated Soils Under Suction-controlled Stress Paths
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2009-09-16)
A novel, computer-driven, true triaxial (cubical) apparatus has been developed to test unsaturated soil specimens under suction-controlled multi-axial stress paths that are not achievable in a conventional cylindrical ...
A Study On The Effect Of Mechanical Stretch And Aligned Scaffold Architecture On Morphology Of Rat Ventricular Cells
(Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Heart disease is one of the major causes of death in developing and industrialized countries. Myocardial infarction leads to remodeling of the left ventricle, which severely affects the pumping efficiency of the heart. In ...
Novel Stabilization Methods For Sulfate And Non-sulfate Soils
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Expansive soils are commonly found in arid and semi-arid climate zone. These soils typically exhibit moderate to high plasticity, low to moderate strength, and high swell and shrinkage characteristic which in turn result ...
Regridding In Nonrigid Image Registration
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Regridding was first introduced in viscous fluid registration for preventing folding of the transformation and for maintaining the admissible deformation field in large-deformation nonrigid image registration applications. ...
Biaxial Investigation Of Periosteal Mechanics
(Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Limb lengthening procedures are used commonly to correct limb length discrepancies. Current methods in limb lengthening require a distraction of 1 mm per day using an external fixation device. Although the underlying ...
Complex Directional Wavelet Transforms: Representation, Statistical Modeling And Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
The thesis presents an new image decomposition for feature extraction, which is called the pyramidal dual-tree directional filter bank (PDTDFB). The image representation has an overcomplete ratio of less than 8/3 and uses ...
A Systematic Review Of The Effects Of Psychotherapy Involving Equines
(Social Work, 2009-09-16)
This systematic review examines the empirical literature in an emerging body of evidence for the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions involving equines across populations. Fourteen full reports in English were ...
Synthesis And Characterization Of Crosslinked Urethane Doped Polyesters For Vascular Tissue Engineering
(Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Traditional crosslinked polyester elastomers are inherently weak, and the strategy of increasing crosslink density to improve their mechanical properties makes them brittle materials. Biodegradable polyurethanes, although ...