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The Lord of the Air: Winston Churchill and the Technocratic British State, 1917-1922

Colvin, Perry A. (2018-12-03)

This dissertation examines the evolution of Winston Churchill’s efforts at technocratic reform within the British military from 1917 to 1922. It seeks to understand the roots of Churchill’s technocratic tendencies in the ...

“Los Caminos de la Vida”- Mapping Emerging Adulthood and Acculturation Theory onto Ecological Systems to Understand Latine College Students and Their Parents Perspectives

Gonzalez-Galvan, Stephanie (2026-07-23)

This dissertation examined the experiences of Latine college students and their families through ecological, cultural, and developmental perspectives. Despite the growing population of Latine college students in higher ...

Louise Blanchad Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881-1905)

Hays, Johanna (2007-08-15)

Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913) was America’s first professional woman architect at a time when few women chose careers except when faced with economic necessity. The only child of teachers, Bethune’s education ...

'A Louse For A Portion': Early-Eighteenth-Century English Attitudes Towards Scots, 1688-1725

McGaughy, Joseph (2008-05-15)

This thesis examines and analyzes Englishmen’s perceptions of Scots during the years between the Revolution of 1688 and the Shawfield Riots of 1725. In 1707, the Scottish Parliament convened for the last time and Scottish ...

Love in a Family Context

Sabey, Allen (2016-06-17)

The desire to love and be loved is an innate need that motivates many of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors across the entire lifespan. Despite the importance of love, it has only been a topic of serious psychological ...

‘Love It or Hate It’? Exploring the Role of Visual Storytelling in Mitigating Design Risk

Seifert, Christin (2017-04-25)

Even though consumers desire new product designs, many are initially hesitant to purchase innovatively designed products due to the lack of understanding the new design’s value, resulting in product launch failures. Thus, ...

Love Me Through It: An Observational Perspective on Health-Related Spousal Support Over Time

McHugh, Kaitlyn (2016-08-26)

During times of hardship, it is natural for individuals to seek support from those close to them, which may explain why partners turn to each other when faced with health issues. Though partners in all stages of life can ...

Love Styles Utilized by African-American Men as Predicted by Stages of Racial Identity and Perceptions of African-American Women

Moore, Jennifer A. (2012-01-18)

The purpose of this study was to explore the interactions among racial identity levels and perceptions of African-American women, and the possible effects of the levels and perceptions on loves styles utilized by ...

Low edge safety factor disruptions in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid: Operation in the low-q regime, passive disruption avoidance and the nature of MHD precursors

Pandya, Mihir (2016-08-02)

The nominally axisymmetric (2-D) magnetic configuration in the form of a tokamak has proven to be the best candidate for a future reactor, and yet it is susceptible to instabilities which lead to a complete loss of the ...

Low Latency Queuing Control in Extendable Mobile Ad-hoc Network Emulator (EMANE)

lI, Shaoyi (2019-11-18)

A variation packets delay which is also called packet jitter causes packet loss and delay. When jitter happens to stream video, users suffer an annoying freezes which results in user unpleasant. The solution for reducing ...

A Low Power, Low Noise Phase Locked Loop MMIC for Ku- and X-Band Applications

Ray, Mark (2009-03-23)

This paper presents the analysis, design, simulation, and test results for a Fractional-N PLL frequency synthesizer. The synthesizer is designed to cover multiple frequency bands, require low power, and have low noise. ...

Low Speed Orthogonal Hot Machining With a Virtual Quick Stop Device

Patillo, Jonathan Maxmillian Edward (2016-05-06)

Cocquilhat first documented (1851) how heat in a tool shortens the life of the tool. Research since his time has generally concluded that the tool gives up a relatively higher percentage of its “cold hardness and toughness” ...

Low Temperature Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide Using Microfibrous Entrapped Catalysts for Fire Escape Mask Application

Karanjikar, Mukund (2005-08-15)

The prime reason for life casualties in fire is not the fire itself but poisoning caused by presence of carbon monoxide. It has been reported by American Medical Association that CO causes about 2100 deaths per year and ...

Low-Bandwidth Three Dimensional Mapping and Latency Reducing Model Prediction to Improve Teleoperation of Robotic Vehicles

Woodall, William (2012-07-25)

This thesis uses novel three dimensional sensors like the Microsoft Kinect [1] and the Asus Xtion Pro Live [2] to generate three dimensional environments and use the recon- structed environment with a predictive model in ...

Low-Cost, Rapid, Sensitive Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria Using Phage-Based Magnetoelastic Biosensors

Horikawa, Shin (2013-04-05)

As part of the ongoing efforts to secure food safety as well as to guard against possible bioterrorism, the role of pathogen detection technologies has become vital. However, conventional and standard detection methods, ...

Low-dose clozapine but not haloperidol attenuates ketamine-induced deficits under an incremental repeated acquisition procedure

Shen, Andrew (2014-08-07)

Ketamine, like other N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists, causes both locomotor and cognitive dysfunction, decrements that may be mediated by distinct neurotransmitter systems. The present study was designed ...