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The Removal of the Creek Indians from the Southeast, 1825-1838
(2010-05-24)
This dissertation examines the removal of approximately twenty-three thousand Creek Indians from Alabama and Georgia to present-day Oklahoma between 1825 and 1838. At its height, the Creek Nation encompassed most of the ...
Development and Evaluation of a High-Speed, Continuous-Flow, Automated Plasmapheresis Procedure for the Collection of Equine Plasma According to Current Good Manufacturing Practices
(2009-12-17)
The purpose of this investigation was to develop and evaluate a high-speed,
continuous-flow, automated plasmapheresis procedure for the collection of equine plasma
according to current good manufacturing practices. Once ...
Clinicians' conceptual use of comorbidity
(2009-05-04)
Diagnostic overlap, termed comorbidity, is a common occurrence in psychopathology. However, the current classification system for mental disorders (DSM-IV-TR; APA, 2000) does not explicitly address how diagnostic concepts ...
Zombie as Parody: The Misuses of Science and the Nonhuman Condition in Postmodern Society
(2009-04-30)
For this project, I will focus on those zombie films/texts that locate scientific and medical advances (or “advances”) as the source of cultural critique. Like Frankenstein in his laboratory, these particular zombie texts ...
Applicability of Mitochondrial Genome Data to Annelid Phylogeny and the Evolution of Group II Introns
(2009-07-02)
Annelida is a very diverse group of segmented worms with over 16,500 described
species. They play an important role in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Despite
this, their phylogenetic and evolutionary relationships ...
High Dielectric Constant 0-3 Ceramic-Polymer Composites
(2009-07-28)
0-3 ceramic-polymer composites using both nano-size and micro-size CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramic particles were studied. The micro-size ceramic particles were prepared from the CaCu3Ti4O12 pellets by milling. The CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramics ...
Optimizing and Scheduling of a Pooled Log Transport System
(2009-07-15)
The log truck scheduling problem (LTSP) under capacity constraints and time window constraints which is an NP-hard problem, involves the design of a set of best possible routes for a set of trucks starting and ending the ...
Relationship of Thought Suppression and Emotion Suppression to Lesbians’ and Gay Men’s Levels of Outness: Investigating the Effects of Chronic Suppression
(2009-07-21)
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine emotion regulation, thought suppression and outness in relation to the lesbian and gay communities. Also, the relationship of level of outness and reported psychological ...
Therapeutic Liposomes for Prostate Cancer Targeted by Phage Fusion Coat Proteins
(2009-12-15)
Cancer diagnosis and treatment is complicated by the molecular similarity of the malignant cells to normal cells. This creates a constant need for the development of probes accurately distinguishing between diseased and ...
Muscle oxygenation does not affect the prior exercise effect
(2009-08-03)
The controlling factors responsible for the "turn-on‟ of oxidative phosphorylation at the onset of exercise (VO2 on-kinetics) are controversial. Current hypotheses center on delayed O2 delivery, the build-up of respiratory ...