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A Longitudinal Study: Examining the Effect of Campus Racial Climate and Sense of Belonging on First-Year African American College Students’ Depressive Symptoms
(2018-04-29)
There is limited quantitative evidence examining how race, sense of belonging and campus racial climate collectively affect first-year African American college students’ depressive symptoms. The present study explores these ...
A Look at Public Service Motivation Using NLSY97 Data: Examining Prosocial Attitudes and Altruistic Behavior in Young Adults with Professional Public Service Experience
(2016-08-16)
This study examines whether young adults with work experience in public service organizations—defined as organizations within sectors which have an other-centeredness orientation, such as public, nonprofit, or military ...
“Looking for a City”: Community, Politics, and Gay and Lesbian Rights in Atlanta, 1968-1993
(2018-12-03)
“‘Looking for a City’: Community, Politics, and Gay and Lesbian Rights in Atlanta, 1968-1993,” explores the evolution of gay and lesbian communities and the development of lesbian and gay rights in Atlanta, Georgia, from ...
A Loosely Coupled GNSS/PDR Integration Approach for Pedestrian Navigation
(2023-07-28)
Pedestrian navigation systems embody small, lightweight hardware, techniques, and biomechanical information to provide positioning information in an architecture that substitutes, or supplements, traditional systems such ...
The Lord of the Air: Winston Churchill and the Technocratic British State, 1917-1922
(2018-12-03)
This dissertation examines the evolution of Winston Churchill’s efforts at technocratic reform within the British military from 1917 to 1922. It seeks to understand the roots of Churchill’s technocratic tendencies in the ...
Louise Blanchad Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881-1905)
(2007-08-15)
Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913) was America’s first professional woman architect at a time when few women chose careers except when faced with economic necessity. The only child of teachers, Bethune’s education ...
'A Louse For A Portion': Early-Eighteenth-Century English Attitudes Towards Scots, 1688-1725
(2008-05-15)
This thesis examines and analyzes Englishmen’s perceptions of Scots during the years between the Revolution of 1688 and the Shawfield Riots of 1725. In 1707, the Scottish Parliament convened for the last time and Scottish ...
Love in a Family Context
(2016-06-17)
The desire to love and be loved is an innate need that motivates many of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors across the entire lifespan. Despite the importance of love, it has only been a topic of serious psychological ...
‘Love It or Hate It’? Exploring the Role of Visual Storytelling in Mitigating Design Risk
(2017-04-25)
Even though consumers desire new product designs, many are initially hesitant to purchase innovatively designed products due to the lack of understanding the new design’s value, resulting in product launch failures. Thus, ...
Love Me Through It: An Observational Perspective on Health-Related Spousal Support Over Time
(2016-08-26)
During times of hardship, it is natural for individuals to seek support from those close to them, which may explain why partners turn to each other when faced with health issues. Though partners in all stages of life can ...
Love Styles Utilized by African-American Men as Predicted by Stages of Racial Identity and Perceptions of African-American Women
(2012-01-18)
The purpose of this study was to explore the interactions among racial identity levels and perceptions of African-American women, and the possible effects of the levels and perceptions on loves styles utilized by ...
Low edge safety factor disruptions in the Compact Toroidal Hybrid: Operation in the low-q regime, passive disruption avoidance and the nature of MHD precursors
(2016-08-02)
The nominally axisymmetric (2-D) magnetic configuration in the form of a tokamak has proven to be the best candidate for a future reactor, and yet it is susceptible to instabilities which lead to a complete loss of the ...
Low Latency Queuing Control in Extendable Mobile Ad-hoc Network Emulator (EMANE)
(2019-11-18)
A variation packets delay which is also called packet jitter causes packet loss and delay. When jitter happens to stream video, users suffer an annoying freezes which results in user unpleasant. The solution for reducing ...
Low Noise, Low Power Capacitive-Coupling Quadrature Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Phase-Locked Loops
(2012-11-06)
This dissertation presents the analytical results and design details of two quadrature voltage-controlled oscillators (QVCO). It uses capacitive quadrature-coupling technique to couple two voltage-controlled oscillator ...
Low Phase Noise Voltage-Controlled Oscillators for Wide-Band Frequency Synthesis
(2013-11-11)
Noise-bandwidth trade-off is a challenge issue in modern voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) designs. Wide-tuning VCOs usually suffer degraded phase noise. A mixer based tuning range enhancement technology is proposed in ...
A Low Power 10 GHz Phase Locked Loop for Radar Applications Implemented in 0.13 um SiGe Technology
(2009-04-14)
In today's society there is a growing trend where microwave wireless devices are becom-
ing common in every household and workplace. The increasing desire for these devices is to
create smaller low power devices. There ...
A Low Power, Low Noise Phase Locked Loop MMIC for Ku- and X-Band Applications
(2009-03-23)
This paper presents the analysis, design, simulation, and test results for a Fractional-N
PLL frequency synthesizer. The synthesizer is designed to cover multiple frequency bands,
require low power, and have low noise. ...
Low Speed Orthogonal Hot Machining With a Virtual Quick Stop Device
(2016-05-06)
Cocquilhat first documented (1851) how heat in a tool shortens the life of the tool. Research since his time has generally concluded that the tool gives up a relatively higher percentage of its “cold hardness and toughness” ...
Low Temperature Modeling of I-V Characteristics and RF Small Signal Parameters of SiGe HBTs
(2009-11-11)
SiGe HBT has been attached great attention recently to be used for space exploration due to its high-quality performance compared with conventional Si bipolar transistor over an extremely wide temperature range. The ...
Low Temperature Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide Using Microfibrous Entrapped Catalysts for Fire Escape Mask Application
(2005-08-15)
The prime reason for life casualties in fire is not the fire itself but poisoning caused by presence of carbon monoxide. It has been reported by American Medical Association that CO causes about 2100 deaths per year and ...