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Powerful or Pretty: A Content Analysis of Gender Images in Children's Animated Films
(2010-04-02)
The purpose of this study was the exploration of the portrayal of gender roles, images and stereotypes in children’s animated films. A content analysis of five animated children’s films was conducted. The sample consisted ...
PPM1A Phosphatase is Involved in Regulating Pregnane Xenobiotic Receptor Mediated Cytochrome P450 3A4 Gene Expression
(2014-12-10)
The liver is the most important organ of drug metabolism and plays a major role in the detoxification of both endobiotics and xenobiotics. The process of drug metabolism is undertaken in three distinct phases. Cytochromes ...
Practical Application of Petrographic Methods to Crushed Stone Aggregate Exploration: Comparing Microstructures and Grain Boundaries to Physical Quality Testing of Aggregate
(2015-12-14)
This research attempts to compare and correlate microscopic properties of aggregate material to the aggregates physical engineering properties. Material was collected and tested to obtain physical and mechanical properties ...
Practical Consideration of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks
(2006-12-15)
In this dissertation, we investigate different routing approaches in an attempt to improve
the network performance by considering how wireless networks operate in the realistic
environment. Our work is centered around ...
Practical diets for Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei utilizing alternative ingredients
(2019-10-31)
Global shrimp production has steadily increased and is currently one of the primary users of fishmeal (FM). At the same time, Global fishmeal supply has reached a plateau, with demand still continuing to increase resulting ...
A Practical Quaternary FPGA Architecture Using Floating Gate Memories
(2020-05-11)
A new quaternary FPGA (QFPGA) architecture based on floating-gate memory elements is presented and analyzed. While technology scaling has delivered substantial FPGAperformance, consumer demands grow beyond what binary ...
A Practical Rate Adaptation Algorithm for IEEE 802.11 Networks
(2010-07-28)
IEEE 802.11 standard has evolved from the early basic transmission rate to today's multiple transmission rates. The performance of IEEE 802.11 devices has been improved by exploiting multiple transmission rates. However, ...
Practical Stateless Geographical Routing (PSGR) - 3-D Stateless Geographic Routing for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
(2008-05-15)
Underwater acoustic sensor networks have recently gained increasing research attentions due to their vast potential applications. Although the limited bandwidth and power resources in such networks have made stateless ...
Practically Realizing Random Access Scan
(2006-05-15)
The number of clock cycles in a serial scan (SS) test is often prohibitive as the number of flip-flops (FF) increases. Besides, scan-in and scan-out sequences result in unwanted circuit activity. This increases the test ...
Practice makes Perfect? An Exploration of Benefits Gained from a six week Mindfulness-Based Couple Relationship Education Course
(2016-08-04)
Mindfulness-Based Couple Relationship Education (MBCRE) courses seek to provide participants with skills that they can use to benefit themselves and their relationships. This pilot study of Couples Connecting Mindfully ...
Practicing Counselors, Vicarious Trauma, and Subthreshold PTSD: Implications for Counselor Educators
(2017-05-22)
The purpose of the current study was to gain an understanding of the relationship of vicarious trauma symptoms and subthreshold Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms among practicing counselors. Research indicates ...
Pre-bond TSV Test Optimization and Stacking Yield Improvement for 3D ICs
(2014-12-10)
Through silicon via (TSV) based three-dimensional IC (3D IC) exhibits various advantages over traditional two-dimensional IC (2D IC), including heterogeneous integration,reduced delay and power dissipation, compact device ...
Pre-conditioning beef calves with high moisture forages and co-product feeds
(2017-04-17)
A 45-d backgrounding study was conducted at the E.V. Smith Research Center in Shorter, AL to determine animal performance differences of pre-conditioned beef calves fed annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) baleage, ...
A Pre-distortion Technique for OTA-C Filter Design
(2010-11-16)
The growing demand of continuous filters in portable electronic equipment, wireless receivers and continuous-time (CT) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) has spawned a strong research interest from industry and academia. ...
Pre-Service Counselors, Pre-Service Special Education, and Pre-Service Regular Education Teachers’ Perceptions of Students Who Are English Language Learners
(2017-06-27)
Continued research in the area of Linguistically Diverse Students (LDS) suggests that
educators’ perceptions and attitudes significantly impacts the students they teach.
Research has identified predictors of these ...
Pre-service teachers and student responses to a culturally relevant curriculum
(2006-08-15)
Teacher candidates may not be receiving the appropriate training needed to succeed in today's culturally diverse schools. This research placed teacher candidates into a lab setting consisting of culturally diverse students ...
Pre-service Teachers’ Computational Knowledge, Efficacy, and Number Sense Skills
(2011-08-04)
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Curriculum Focal Points (2006) suggested heavy emphasis on instruction in whole numbers for young elementary students. Any intervention curriculum for students who ...
Pre-Service Teachers’ Use of Instructional Strategies when Comprehending and Instructing using Contextually Challenging Text
(2019-06-20)
This qualitative case study explores the processes that occurred when pre-service teachers in an undergraduate elementary education literacy methods course were asked to interact with contextually challenging texts in a ...
Pre-teaching Vocabulary to Improve Comprehension of a Narrative Text
(2012-12-05)
This study investigated the use of the pre-instruction of vocabulary in order to improve elementary students’ reading comprehension of a narrative text. Three classes of second, fourth, and sixth graders were pre-taught ...
Precision Agriculture Systems for the Southeast US Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning
(2023-08-10)
Recent advancements in sensors, machine vision and deep learning with the development
of efficient algorithms has enabled new opportunities in precision agriculture. In this dissertation
three different projects are ...