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Collaborative Marketing Enterprises: Local Food Exchange and the Promise of Sustainability
(2009-11-19)
Direct marketing by small-scale, organically-oriented farmers in the United States has risen in popularity in recent decades in the form of farmers markets, Community Supported Agriculture, roadside stands and U-pick ...
Weight and Body Measurement Changes In College Freshmen
(2009-11-04)
A limited number of research studies suggest that new college students gain some weight on average during their freshman year. Most studies have had relatively small samples; some have used self-reported rather than measured ...
Genuine Sequential Estimation Procedures for Gamma Populations using Exact Evaluation Criteria
(2009-12-09)
In this dissertation, we develop genuine two-stage sequential procedures for bounded-risk and fixed-width confidence interval estimation for Gamma distributed populations, based on exact evaluation criteria. The term ...
Instrumental Jazz Ensemble Programs in Alabama High Schools
(2009-12-18)
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to survey the instrumental jazz ensembles of Alabama’s public high schools during the 2008-09 academic year. Since existing data on high school jazz ensemble programs in Alabama ...
The Potential Benefits of Multi-modal Social Interaction on the Web for Senior Users
(2009-12-16)
As the population of senior adults is growing rapidly, there is a high demand for social resources to support them. The Internet has become a key factor in today’s society for improving lifestyle, from entertainment to ...
Properties of Nonmetric Hereditarily Indecomposable Subcontinua of Finite Products of Lexicographic Arcs
(2009-11-09)
Nonmetric hereditarily indecomposable subcontinua of finite products of Lexicographic arcs are examined. It is shown that these subcontinua cannot intersect certain subsets of the products. Then nonmetric hereditarily ...
Effects of Ozone Pollution and Climate Variability/Change on Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Terrestrial Primary Productivity and Carbon Storage in China
(2009-12-08)
Over the past several decades, China’s terrestrial ecosystems have experienced severe air pollution and other environmental changes. Quantifying how these environmental changes have affected carbon (C) fluxes and storage ...
Internalization: A Process Related to Stages-of-Change among Participants in a Court-Mandated Substance Abuse Program
(2009-04-30)
Substance-use disorders continue to be costly psychological conditions to the individuals who are afflicted, as well as to the society as a whole (NIDA, 1998). Unfortunately, the treatment of substance-use disorders has ...
The Role of gyrA, Efflux Pump and Integrons in Mediating the Emergence of Multi-Drug Resistance among Canine and Feline Pathogenic Clinical Escherichia coli
(2009-05-01)
A series of experiments was performed to elucidate the emergence of fluoroquinolone (FQ)/multi-drug resistance (MDR) and the contribution of selected mechanisms of resistance to MDR (i.e. mutations in gyrA, efflux pump, ...
A Study of the Viability of RF MEMS for the Implementation of a Single-Chip Programmable RF Front End for Software Defined Radio Femto Cells
(2009-04-28)
The RF front end circuitry makes up over 60% of the cost of a base transceiver station (BTS, also referred as Node B in 3G networks). Included in this cost is that of the Power Amplifier unit, RF filters, and the GPS unit ...