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Playful landscapes build a resilient city
(2015-05-04)
There are lots of ways to build a resilient city in the world. With different situations, cities should have different ways to build resilient cities, like the case building resilient city in New Orleans is different from ...
Pleasurable Insights: Conceptualizing the role of Sexual Pleasure within Intimate Relationships
(2013-07-08)
Sexual pleasure is commonly thought of as the central construct motivating sexual behavior. However, there is very little empirically-based work on the conceptualization and measurement of sexual pleasure. The current study ...
Pleasure of manual kitchen products: A checklist for designing manual kitchen tools
(2016-04-12)
As the heart of the home, the kitchen is always a happening place. It can be used to
entertain family, cook that holiday meal, or just scrounge for the latest snack. Kitchen tools have
an important role in creating ...
Plenoptic BOS: Combining a Plenoptic Camera with the Background Oriented Schlieren Technique
(2016-12-07)
The background oriented schlieren (BOS) technique is a method of observing the refraction of light rays passing through a density varying medium. When used with a conventional imaging system, this technique captures a ...
Plumage coloration and morphology in Chiroxiphia manakins: interacting effects of natural and sexual selection
(2006-05-15)
I examined how natural and sexual selection may have influenced the morphology and coloration of Chiroxiphia manakins (Aves: Pipridae). In the first chapter, I investigated age and sexrelated patterns of plumage coloration ...
Poetry Centers for the Purpose of Lowering Inhibitions of English Language Learners in the Constructivist English Language Arts Classroom
(2009-08-03)
The purpose of this study was to examine what happened in terms of lowering ELL students’ affective filters when a particular teacher of English language learners introduced her poetry activities, centered on aesthetic ...
Policing Poultry: State and Market Interplay and its Ramifications in the Rural South
(2018-11-15)
This study uses qualitative data from 31 interviews and 8 months of observation to describe state and market powers in a town that is reliant on both poultry processing and the immigrant population that the industry drew ...
Policy Adoption and Networked Governance: How Power Arrangements Explain Local Approaches to HIV Testing in County Jails
(2017-11-30)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) continues to be a pernicious problem in the United States’ correctional facilities, despite national prevention efforts for decades. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has been working ...
Policy Narratives surrounding Port Infrastructure Projects adjacent to Coral Reefs in Florida and the Cayman Islands
(2022-05-04)
Coral reefs hold immense economic, ecological, and cultural value but are severely threatened by climate change and other local stressors, such as coastal development projects. In Florida and the Cayman Islands, two locations ...
Political Patents of Monopoly: Parliamentary and Public Discourse of Economic Policy, 1628-1648
(2014-05-13)
Discussion of patents of monopoly during the reign of Charles I reflected the changing political environment from the 1620s through the 1640s. Members of parliament and merchant pamphleteers described monopolies as ...
“A Politician’s Worst Nightmare”: Framing Analysis of Facebook Campaign Advertisements from the 2020 Alabama Senatorial Election
(2022-04-29)
This study is a framing analysis of campaign advertisements from the 2020 Alabama senatorial election between Doug Jones and Tommy Tuberville. This research aims to understand the relationship between the types of communicative ...
Politics and Poverty: Women's Reproductive Rights in Arkansas, 1942-1980
(2009-05-04)
Today, many of us think of birth control and abortion in terms of women's rights and reproductive choice. But, as this study will illustrate, for much of the history of birth control and abortion in Arkansas, it simply has ...
Poly(ethylene glycol)-based Hydrogel to Support Endothelialization and Vascularization by Endothelial Progenitor Cells
(2014-12-04)
Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) have the potential to become a reliable source of autologous cells for endothelialization of intravascular devices and vascularization of tissue engineered constructs. Endothelial colony ...
Poly(ethylene glycol)-Based Hydrogels to Support Vascularization and Reendothelialization by Endothelial Colony Forming Cells
(2020-03-16)
Endothelial colony forming cells (ECFCs) have a high proliferative capability and can differentiate into endothelial cells, making them a promising cell source for vascularization of ischemic tissues and reendothelialization ...
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Biochar and Their Bioavailabilty
(2017-12-08)
Biochar may be utilized as a soil-amendment to sequester carbon and enhance soil fertility through improved nutrient retention, increased plant-available water, and improved drainage for excess water. Before biochar can ...
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Red Snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, and Sediment Samples After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(2016-01-12)
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred on 20 April 2010, which led to approximately 4.9 million barrels of oil entering the northern Gulf of Mexico. Red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, are an important species in the Gulf ...
Polyketide Synthase Pathway Discovery from Soil Metagenomic Libraries
(2009-07-21)
Polyketides are structurally diverse bacterial secondary metabolites, many of which have antibiotic or anti-cancer activity. Modular polyketide synthase (PKS) enzymatic complexes contain conserved ketoacyl synthase (KS) ...
Polymer/Composite Devices for Sports Injury Prevention
(2015-05-11)
For the safety and well being of all athletes in a high contact sport, it is in the athletes’ best interest for those responsible to constantly be looking for ways to improve safety equipment such as helmets and padding. ...
Polymeric System for Photochemical Generation of H2O2 and Initiator for Photoreduction of Hexavalent Chromium
(2014-12-04)
Stimuli responsive polymers (SRPs) have become a technological advancement in areas of materials, pharmaceuticals, and biomedical applications because the polymers can respond to small changes in the environment which can ...
Polymeric Textile Stents: Prototyping and Modeling
(2005-08-15)
Although metal stents have been implanted for more than a decade, performance deficiencies still exist. The current study focuses on prototyping and modeling of braided structures to be used as stents, hence called ‘textile ...