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Changes in energy expenditure associated with injestion of high protein, high fat versus high protein, low fat meals among underweight, normal weight, and overweight females 

Riggs, Amy (2006-08-15)
Changes in energy expenditure in response to ingestion of a high protein, high fat meal versus an isocaloric high protein, low fat meal were investigated in 21 females, aged 19-28 years. Subjects were classified based on ...

Changes in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption of Third Grade Students in Body Quest: Food of the Warrior, a 17-class Childhood Obesity Prevention Program 

Mastropietro, Lisa (2012-11-06)
Objective: To increase fruit and vegetable (F/V) consumption, third grade students participated in Body Quest (BQ), a 17-class childhood obesity prevention program. Methods: Students (n = 2,477) were randomly assigned to ...

Changes in in vitro fermentative capacity of equine feces due to alteration of forage diet 

Turner, Stephanie (2017-04-25)
In vitro digestibility methods require a microbial inoculum source. In hindgut fermenters like equids, cannulation of the cecum is a high-risk procedure and can be avoided by using feces as a microbial inoculum source. The ...

Changes in Southern Piedmont Grassland Community Structure and Nutritive Quality Under Future Climate Predictions: Tropospheric Ozone and Altered Rainfall 

Gilliland, Nicholas (2011-05-19)
Tropospheric (ground-level) ozone (O3) is the most significant phytotoxic air pollutant in the United States. It is readily transported to rural agricultural and forested areas from urban centers. Estimating the effects ...

Changes in the Open Reading Frame of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus during Serial Infection of Pregnant Cattle, Sheep, and Swine 

Kuca, Thibaud (2018-04-24)
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is an economically important pathogen that is endemic in cattle populations of many countries. This virus can also infect pigs, camelids, and a wide range of ruminants including sheep, ...

Changing disease knowledge, self-efficacy, and adherence in transition-aged youth with inflammatory bowel disease: The impact of a telehealth coaching intervention 

Wagoner, Scott (2020-07-13)  ETD File Embargoed
The current study is an evaluation of the first structured transition program for families managing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) within the United States. To determine the program’s effectiveness, important transition ...

The Changing Status of Women in Taiwan: 1945-2010 

Lu, Mei-Lien (2012-05-04)
This dissertation analyzes the economic, social, and political status of women in Taiwan from 1945 to 2010. This research was guided by a theoretical model of how the status of women worldwide is influenced by the extent ...

Changing the Channel on T.V. 

Coombes, Daniel (2011-11-30)
Changing the channel on ‘TV’ is a landscape architecture research project which interrogates the concept of terrain vague through the practises of the formless, a theory developed by Georges Bataille in the late 1920’s. ...

Changing Trade Patterns of Forest Products in the United States 

Headley, Jeremy (2007-12-15)
In recent years, a trend has emerged in the trade of forest products in the United States. As witnessed in many other industries in the U.S. over the past several decades, forest products exports have steadily dropped off ...

Channel Estimation and Equalization for Doubly-Selective Channels Using Basis Expansion Models 

Song, Liying (2008-05-15)
The nature of the wireless channels places fundamental limitations on the performance of wireless communication systems. In addition to the frequency-selectivity characteristics caused by multipath propagation, the high-rate ...

Channel State Information Fingerprinting Based Indoor Localization: a Deep Learning Approach 

Gao, Lingjun (2015-07-28)
With the fast growing demand of location-based services in indoor environments, indoor positioning based on fingerprinting has attracted a lot of interest due to its high accuracy. In this thesis, we present a novel deep ...

Chaotic Dynamic Character of Human Chewing Determined Using New Three-Dimensional Motion Capture Techniques 

McIntyre, Joseph (2015-05-05)
A need exists to determine the dynamic character of natural human chewing so human mandible or lower jaw biomechanics can be fully understood. No one has reported investigating the dynamic character of natural human chewing ...

Characteristics and Barriers Impacting the Eradication of an Invasive Species in Trinidad and Tobago: Case Study of the Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) A Three Paper Dissertation 

Larkin, Tracy (2023-12-07)
The purpose of this study was to understand the influence of selected factors on the adoption of eradication methods/programs for the Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) by farmers. This study used Rogers, (2003) Diffusion ...

Characteristics of Effective Teachers in the Air Force's Squadron Officer College 

O'Meara, Kevin (2007-08-15)
The present study investigated the degree to which Squadron Officer School Class 07D students perceived the characteristics of effective teachers by ranking of each of the 28 characteristics identified on the Teacher ...

The Characteristics of REITs During the Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Stock and Option Markets 

Shang, Ke (2013-11-15)
In this thesis, we examine the characteristics of real estate investment trust (REIT) equity with the sample of Simon Property Group Inc. (SPG) during the financial crisis (from 2006 to 2008). Diavatopoulos, Fodor et al. ...

Characterization and differentiation of bacteria by hyperspectral analysis 

Riggs, Rebecca (2019-07-19)  ETD File Embargoed
Characterization and differentiation of microorganisms by hyperspectral analysis is a promising alternative to conventional techniques in clinical, food, and environmental microbiology to be used as a rapid, non-destructive ...

Characterization and Dynamic Analysis of Damping Effects in Composite Materials for High-Speed Flywheel Applications 

Moreira, Alfonso (2007-05-15)
The directional mechanical properties of carbon fiber reinforced composite materials make them suitable for components of flywheel energy storage systems. Particularly the hub-rim interface is a component where fiber ...

Characterization and hydrocarbon potential of the Lower Permian Wolfcamp Formation, northwestern Mitchell County, Midland Basin, Texas 

Calhoun, Zachary (2018-12-10)
Lithologic, petrologic, and geochemical analyses were performed on the Wolfcamp Formation (operational benches A and B), with a focus on a 400-ft-thick core recovered from wildcat well Strain 2V (API 42-335-53586) in ...

Characterization and Modeling of 28nm RF MOSFETs and SiGe HBTs 

Li, Zhen (2015-12-10)
Both the second and third order intermodulation linearities (IP3 and IP2) are characterized on 28nm RF MOSFETs. The impacts of biasing, device size, frequency, and gate length on IP3 are discussed. With both DC and RF ...

Characterization and Prediction of Material Response of Micro And Nano-Underfills for Flip Chip Devices 

Islam, Muhammad (2006-05-15)
Silica particles are used as a filler material in electronic underfills to reduce coefficient of thermal expansion of the underfill-epoxy matrix. In traditional underfills, the size of silica particles is in the micrometer ...