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Fagidaboudit: The American Dream and Italian-American Gangster Movies
(2005-08-15)
This thesis answers the question, how have both aspects of the American Dream myth been presented in the gangster films and how has the American Dream in gangster films changed in recent years? As Italians immigrated to ...
Failure Evasion: Statistically Solving the NP Complete Problem of Testing Difficult-to-Detect Faults
(2016-12-08)
A circuit with n primary inputs (PIs) has N = 2n possible input vectors. A test vector to correctly detect a fault in that circuit must be among those 2n n-bit combinations. Clearly, this problem can be rephrased as a ...
Failure Mode Classification for Life Prediction Modeling of Solid-State Lighting
(2015-07-24)
Since the passing of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the U.S. government has mandated greater energy independence which has acted as a catalyst for accelerating and facilitating research efforts toward ...
Failure Mode Classification for Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Electronic-Systems under Mechanical Shock
(2012-01-30)
Electronics have become an integral part of most systems and subsystems used in various
fields such as avionics, defense, space exploration, manufacturing, household appliances, health
care (implantable biological devices ...
Failure Modes Analysis and Life Prediction Modeling of Phosphor Converted White Lighting Emitting Diode under Harsh Environment
(2017-06-21)
The development of light-emitting diode (LED) technology has resulted in widespread solid state lighting use in both consumer and industrial applications due to their high-energy efficiency, long expected life, and less ...
Fair Factorizations of the Complete Multipartite Graphs and Related Edge-colorings
(2015-05-12)
In this dissertation, first the technique of vertex amalgamations is used to extend known results on graph decompositions, and in particular on decompositions of the complete multipartite graph K(n,p) with p parts, each ...
Fake News Detection with Quantum Machine Learning
(2023-12-07)
Social media has become a popular platform as a source of news or information in mod- ern life as a result of its timeliness and convenience, but it raises several critical issues. The leading issue is the spread of fake ...
Family Conflict Typology, Maternal Engagement, and Early Childhood Adjustment: A Latent Class Analysis
(2021-12-10)
Family conflict is a broad construct which can encompass violent and non-violent types of conflict. Problematic child outcomes have been associated with exposure to violent and nonviolent forms of inter-parental conflict, ...
Family Forest Landowner Behavior in the Southeast
(2006-12-15)
Forests and forestry have played a significant role in the economic development and psyche of the South. Forests, which pre-settlement occupied nearly all of the land area of the South, now occupy only 55 percent. More ...
Family Forest Landowner Research: Attitudes About Forest Management and Information Needs
(2011-11-15)
This dissertation provides three manuscripts further assessing family forest landowners
based on results from the National Woodland Owner Survey (NWOS) and Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) unit of the United States Department ...
Family Functioning and Children's Sleep Schedule, Quality and Quantity
(2007-08-15)
Although sleep problems are prevalent in U.S. children, very little is known about family variables associated with children’s sleep disruptions. The objective of this study is to examine children’s sleep quality and ...
Family Influences on Risky Sexual Behaviors, Pregnancy, and Abortion Decisions in Swiss Adolescents
(2008-08-15)
Teenage pregnancy remains a social problem. In 1997, almost 15 million adolescents gave birth (Whan, Nissen & Ahlberg, 2005). Although Switzerland has a relatively low teenage pregnancy rate (5.2 births per 1,000 youth ...
Family Processes, Low Self-Control, and Deviance: A Longitudinal Test of Self-Control Theory
(2007-08-15)
The purpose of the current study was to test a number of theoretical propositions by Self-Control Theory (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990). More specifically, the current study tested three theoretical propositions that ...
Family structure and adolescent drug use: The mediating effects of family management, parental bonding, and family history of drug use
(2012-12-05)
A considerable amount of previous research has been conducted to examine the relationship between family structure and adolescent drug use, with the overwhelming majority of these studies indicating that adolescent youth ...
Family-Centered Practice Knowledge and Use Amongst Speech-Language Pathologists: A National Survey
(2022-04-25)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree to which practicing speech-language pathologists (SLPs) engage in family-centered behaviors within the pediatric population. Additionally, this study aims to determine ...
Farm Investment and Off-Farm Income - A Study of Farms in Alabama
(2006-12-15)
This thesis examines the effect of availability of internal finance, net farm income, and net off-farm household income on farm investment. It presents a detailed review of previous studies, develops and estimates an ...
Farmer Mental Health and Rural Stressors
(2022-07-18)
Agriculture has recently suffered from low commodity prices, natural disasters (e.g. droughts and hurricanes), and supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19. These factors influence the physical and mental health of farmers ...
Fashion, Forward! A Practice-Led Exploration into the Confluence of Traditional Techniques and Contemporary Technologies in Fashion and Making
(2018-04-25)
The current research is a combination of practice-led design research and a phenomenological qualitative study into the incorporation of traditional handcraft techniques such as garment construction and fabric dyeing, with ...
Fast and well-conditioned boundary integral equation solvers for the numerical simulation of graphene plasmon
(2018-07-18)
Surface plasmonic polaritons (SPPs) are evanescent electromagnetic waves coupled to free electron plasma oscillations.
It was first observed in metallic gratings in 1902 by Wood. Modern plasmonics gained renewed interest ...
Fast Estimation of Specific Absorption Rate for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(2015-07-02)
Specific absorption rate (SAR) is a main safety concern in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The radio frequency (RF) power deposition and SAR level have a significant impact on RF coil and pulse design. In high field MRI, ...