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Experimental Investigation of Cavity Induced Two Phase Flow in Silicon Microchannels
(2008-09-09)
Modern developments in microelectronics manufacturing and architecture continue to lead to reductions in feature sizes on microprocessor chips. The demand for faster and more powerful systems has approached the limits of ...
Ecology Of Rudbeckia auriculata (Perdue) Kral (Asteraceae)
(2008-09-09)
Rudbeckia auriculata is a rare species endemic to three southeastern states: Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Eight censuses of flowering individuals of the species were conducted from 1992 to 2002. Although the number of ...
Private Schools in the South: Is It About Education?
(2008-09-09)
The question of whether or not private schools provide a better education than public schools has been the study of many studies. The question is important because of the large amount of tax money that is devoted to public ...
Experimental And Analytical Investigation Of A Dynamic Gas Squeeze Film Bearing Including Asperity Contact Effects
(2008-09-09)
This thesis presents a theoretical and an experimental investigation of planar gas squeeze film bearings. The thickness and pressure profile of the gas squeeze film are obtained by simultaneously solving the Reynolds ...
The Arbitress of Passion and of Contract: Eliza Haywood and the Legality of Love
(2009-02-23)
My dissertation is a cultural studies exploration of how the eighteenth-century British author Eliza Haywood legitimizes women’s presence in the legal landscape through illustrations of women’s experiences with contract, ...
Insurrection in Red Ink: The Literary Murder of a 20th Century Goddess
(2009-02-23)
The 20th century literary archetype of the Maternal Goddess had its most locatable beginnings in the late Victorian landscape of poetry and prose. Although goddess imagery had been historically manipulated to serve Victorian ...
A Comparison Of Information Security Trends Between Formal And Informal Environments
(2009-02-23)
The study compared the awareness and practice of information security between formal and informal computing-environments. This study was conducted to develop a measurement instrument for user-level awareness and practice ...
Sound at Heart and Right in Hand: Mobile’s Road to Secession
(2009-02-23)
This study traces Mobilians’ road from moderation to secessionism and analyzes the factors that influenced their decision-making. Mobile’s commercial path of development differentiated it from most of the rest of a rural ...
Measurements of the thermal expansion and heat capacity of metals by electromagnetic levitation
(2009-02-23)
Electromagnetic levitation is a very useful non-contact melting technique that can be exploited for measurements of thermophysical properties of many reactive metals and alloys. This study focused on thermal expansion and ...
Mass Spectral and Chromatographic Studies on a Series Of Regioisomers and Isobaric Derivatives Related to Methylenedioxymethamphetamines
(2009-02-23)
The popular drug of abuse 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has regioisomeric and isobaric substances of mass equivalence, which have similar analytical properties and thus the potential for misidentification. Direct ...