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Partnering With Physicians: How Are Medical Speech-Language Pathologists Perceived

Korstjens, Amber (2010-01-05)

The purpose of this research was to gather insight regarding physicians’ understanding and view of the medical speech-language pathologist. Some questions were compared to previous data presented in a prior survey by ...

Partnering with Reach Out and Read Alabama to Understand Families’ Experiences with Books and Their Babies: The Reading and Relationships Project

Rogers, Kimberly (2022-07-22) ETD File Embargoed

Shared book reading is associated with higher quality parent-child interactions (Canfield et al., 2020a), as well as child cognitive (e.g., Baker, 2013; Baker et al., 2017) and socioemotional development (Downer & Mendez, ...

Party Polarization: Congressional Divergence on Environmental Policy from 1970-2008

Tanger, Shaun (2012-04-17)

We investigate empirically the importance of a conjectured linkage between economic conditions and increasing party divergence with respect to national-level environmental policy in the United States. Using data from ...

Passage and Fine Scale Movements of Paddlefish and Smallmouth Buffalo near Claiborne Lock and Dam

McKee, Dustin (2019-07-10)

Dams often impede spawning migrations of fishes, concentrating adults in their tailwaters. Little is known about behavior of migrating fishes as they approach dams, including where fish are located in the tailrace, their ...

Passive Chemiresistor Sensor Based on Iron (II) Phthalocyanine Thin Films for Monitoring of Nitrogen Dioxide

Shu, John Hungjen (2010-12-09)

Nitrogen dioxide gas is a common atmospheric pollutant that is hazardous to human health at concentrations as low as one part per million (ppm). Iron (II) phthalocyanine (FePc) thin films have been identified to be sensitive ...

Passive microfluidic methods for sampling hormone secretions from primary islets and adipocytes

Godwin, Leah (2013-07-11)

We have developed an 8-channel passive microfluidic device that is capable of sampling both primary islet and adipocytes. Although there are microdevices already published in the literature; they require bulky external ...

Passive Pendulum Balancer for Rotor Systems

Horvath, Roland (2006-05-15)

Automatic, passive self-balancing systems are important tools for reducing the effects of synchronous vibration in a variety of rotating machinery. Such systems are ideally capable of precise balancing, subject to certain ...

Paternal Role Development and Acquisition in Fathers of Preterm Infants: A Qualitative Study

Martinelli, Edward (2005-08-15)

Fathers of preterm infants are under-represented in the literature on parents of preterm infants. The acquisition and development of the paternal role of fathers of preterm infants while their singleton child was hospitalized ...

Path and Cycle Decompositions

Dinavahi, Venkatasai (2008-08-15)

A $G$-design is a partition of edge set of K_v in which each element induces a copy of G. The existence of G-designs with the additional property that they contain no proper subsystems has been previously settled when G ...

Path Curvature on a Convex Roof

Ford, Robert (2007-12-15)

Given a set of rectangles, R1 through Rk, where Ri and Ri+1 share a common edge and these common edges are congruent and parallel to each other. The resulting ”roof” is part of the surface of a convex body. We’ll consider ...

Path Decompositions of the Kneser Graph

Whitt, Thomas Richard, III (2013-04-22)

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the existence of a graph decomposition of the Kneser Graph $KG_{n,2}$ into paths of length three and four, and of the Generalized Kneser Graph $GKG_{n,3,1}$ into paths of ...

Path Delay Tuning for Performance Gain in the face of Random Manufacturing Variations

Mishra, Kautalya (2011-04-18)

Moore's laws predictions of transistor densities doubling every two years in an integrated circuit has held true for the past fifty years, and is predicted to hold true in the coming few years. But as technologies shrink ...

Path Duplication Using GPS Carrier Based Relative Position for Automated Ground Vehicle Convoys

Travis, William (2010-04-15)

A GPS based automated convoy strategy to duplicate the path of a lead vehicle is presented in this dissertation. Laser scanners and cameras are not used; all information available comes from GPS or inertial systems. An ...

Path Following and Obstacle Avoidance for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Brothers, Robert (2020-05-18)

This thesis presents a nonlinear model predictive controller (NMPC) for path following and obstacle avoidance in automated driving systems. Automated safety control systems have been increasingly effective at reducing ...

Pathogen Detection Technique using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Slater, Daniel (2013-04-15)

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) signal relaxation is influenced by aggregate formation when magnetic nanoparticles bind with target molecules. In this study, a magnetic resonance based nanosensor was developed for a ...

Pathogenicity and Virulence of Root-Inhabiting Ophiostomatoid Fungi on Pinus Species of the Southeastern United States

Matusick, George, III (2010-04-29)

Root- inhabiting ophiostomatoid fungi cause root disease in conifer hosts around the world. A group of ophiostomatoid fungi in the genus Grosmannia Goid. and their Leptographium Lagerb. & Melin anamorphs have been recently ...

Pathways of Dysregulation: The Influence of Lifetime Poly-Victimization on Therapy-Interfering Psychosocial Impairment in Adolescents Adjudicated for Sex Offenses

Harrelson, Megan, E. (2019-05-22)

The preset study examined the relationship between poly-victimization exposure, affective dysregulation, and three negative psychosocial outcomes: externalizing problems, posttraumatic stress, and suicidal behavior. ...