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The Investigation of Interns', Teachers', and Principals' Perceptions of Preparedness in Elementary Education 

Webb, Marcia (2016-12-09)
Forty to 50 percent of teachers are leaving the teaching profession in their first five years due to a lack of confidence and a feeling of incompetence when trying to meet the needs of their students in the classroom ...

Investigation of Kinetic Physics of Magnetic Reconnection under a Finite Guide Field 

Lu, Xiang (2011-08-08)
Magnetic reconnection, the process by which the magnetic energy is converted into heat and flow energy, is believed to be a very important process in space and laboratory plasmas. Among various reconnection models, the ...

Investigation of Large Protein Complexes Important for Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase Activity and Function 

Yavari, Shadi (2022-12-07)
Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (Mcr) is a key enzyme of methanogens that catalyzes the production or consumption of methane. Mcr contains a nickel tetrapyrrole cofactor (coenzyme F430) which has a crucial role in catalysis. ...

Investigation of Lateral Performance of an ATV Tire on Natural, Deformable Surfaces 

Krueger, Darrell (2007-12-15)
A study is undertaken to discover links between soil-rubber interface strength, camber, pressure and lateral performance of a front ATV tire. New tire and soil test rigs are also designed and fabricated for the support ...

An Investigation of Learning Styles Assessments and Educational Attainment among Hourly Employees and the Effects on Employee Engagement and Retention 

Nelson, Kathryn (2016-03-25)
Employee engagement and retention are two areas of focus within industry that help organizations assess business metrics such as training effectiveness, hiring practices, and workplace culture. Several methods exist with ...

Investigation of Mass Transfer Phenomena in Supercritical Antisolvent Precipitation Processes 

Chinnawar, Rajeshwar (2015-08-04)
This dissertation involves a detailed discussion of the production of organic and polymeric microparticles of controllable size and size distribution for several applications including certain pharmaceutical formulations. ...

Investigation of Multicomponent Transport Phenomena in Nafion 117 and Crosslinked Polyether-based Membranes via In Situ ATR FTIR Spectroscopy 

Dobyns, Breanna (2020-07-20)
This dissertation focuses on understanding transport and co-transport behavior for a series of species in dense, hydrated polymer membranes. The rate of solute transport through a membrane, permeability, is a fundamental ...

The Investigation of Multigenerational and Transgenerational Trichloroethylene Toxicity using the Zebrafish (Danio Rerio) 

Abernathy, Taylor (2021-04-12)
Multigenerational and transgenerational toxicology studies evaluate the persistence of toxicity in progeny of individuals exposed to a toxicant. For many toxicants, non-genetic mechanisms, especially the alteration of the ...

AN INVESTIGATION OF NATIVE COPPER IN PLAGIOCLASE, LAKE AND HARNEY COUNTIES, OREGON 

BADUR, Cisil Bengisu (2022-05-02)
Mafic igneous rocks are commonly associated with various metals and there are many examples of basalts that host small amounts of native copper. Such copper is more common among the matrix phases of basalts and could ...

An Investigation of Organizational Information Security Risk Analysis 

Jourdan, Stephen Zachariah (2010-03-02)
From the dawn of the information age, technology has advanced rapidly to today where networked computers are almost ubiquitous. One of the problems with connecting computers together is the increased vulnerability to ...

An Investigation of Parental Satisfaction with School Counseling Services Provided for Children of Deployed Military Personnel 

Fairley, Cassandra (2006-12-15)
School-age students who are dealing with major life stressors at home may suffer academically due to preoccupation with their personal crises. Studies have shown that students’ performance in school often plummets because ...

Investigation of Pavement and Subgrade Distress at Alabama Highway 5 

Stallings, Elizabeth Grace (2016-08-05)
The primary objectives of this study were to determine the root causes for subgrade failure and associated pavement distress along Alabama Highway 5 in Perry County, Alabama. In order to accomplish these goals photographic, ...

Investigation of Permeable Asphalt Treated Bases in Alabama 

Wielinski, Jason (2007-05-15)
The Alabama Department of Transportation currently uses a permeable asphalt treated base (PATB) course layer consisting of an AASHTO number 57 aggregate gradation with 2.0% to 2.5% asphalt content. The current mixture ...

Investigation of Pile-Up and Delamination of Au Thin Films on Various Substrates and the Behavior of the Films Described by a Discontinuous Elastic Strain Model 

Frye, James (2012-04-17)
A new method of accurately and reliably extracting the actual Young’s modulus of a thin film on a substrate has been developed. The method is referred to as the discontinuous elastic interface transfer model. The method ...

Investigation of Plasma Detachment from a Magnetic Nozzle 

Chancery, William (2007-08-15)
The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) electric space propulsion concept currently under development by the Ad Astra Rocket Company utilizes a magnetic field to confine a propellant plasma. The energetic ...

Investigation of Point Defects in AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor Heterostructures Grown on Si Wafers 

Ozden, Burcu (2016-05-18)
This PhD dissertation focuses on the investigation of surface/interface defects in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) on Si wafers for power electronic applications. Recently, significant attention has ...

Investigation of Precise Relative Positioning through Varying Equipment Grades 

Campos-Vega, Christian (2022-02-22)
In this thesis, three methodologies are investigated in order to provide precise relative positioning knowledge between two dynamic platforms as equipment grade is varied. Two methods are integrated into the real-time ...

Investigation of Probe-Induced Dust Voids in a Weakly Magnetized Dusty Plasma 

LeBlanc, Spencer (2019-12-06)
Dust voids, or regions free of dust grains surrounded by dusty plasmas, have been observed in a wide array of experimental configurations, from microgravity systems, to 3-dimensional dust clouds, to 2-dimensional monolayers. ...

An Investigation of Psychological Factors Associated with Religious Involvement 

Sizelove, Dennis (2007-08-15)
Research suggests that a relationship exists between church attendance and mental health, although the parameters of the relationship are unclear. The present study has focused on the relationship between religious involvement ...

Investigation of RF Noise in 28nm RF CMOS Using TCAD 

Wang, Jingyi (2015-05-07)
State of art of 28 nm RF MOSFET is studied using sentaurus process and device tools. DC characteristics, such as C-V, Rs, Rd and I-V curves are calibrated by adjustment of physics model. The relationship between saturation ...