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Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling under Warm Season Turfgrasses
(2014-06-06)
Despite its large-scale presence in the urban ecosystem, the role of turfgrasses in C and N cycling in urban soils in the southeastern United States has not been documented, and in particular C and N cycling studies in ...
PGE mineralization at the Allard stock: Implications for the porphyry to epithermal transition, La Plata Mountains, Colorado
(2014-06-06)
Geochemical and petrographic studies on the Allard stock, which hosts a porphyry Cu-Ag-Au-Te-PGE deposit in the La Plata Mountains of southwestern Colorado, suggest mantle sources for both metals and sulfur. Microprobe ...
Thermal Modeling and Management of Storage Systems
(2014-06-24)
Energy consumption of data storage systems has increased significantly for the past decades. There is an urgent need to build energy-efficient data storage systems. Computing cost of IT facilities and cooling cost of air ...
Efficient Numerical Algorithms for Solving Nonlinear Filtering Problems
(2014-06-18)
Examples of nonlinear filtering problems arise in biology, mathematical finance, signal processing, image processing, target tracking and many engineering applications. Commonly used numerical simulation methods are the ...
Dual-Threshold Voltage Design of Sub-Threshold Circuits
(2014-06-18)
Threshold voltage of MOSFET technology represents the value of the gate-source voltage
when the current in a MOS transistor starts to increase significantly since the conduction
layer just begins to appear. However, a ...
Victim Blaming and Rape Myth Acceptance: Attitudes that Influence Advice-Giving to Victims of Sexual Assault
(2014-06-24)
The current study investigated whether the consumption of alcohol, type of dress worn, and degree of resistance would influence whether or not people would advise a hypothetical rape victim to disclose her sexual assault ...
Conflict Behaviors and Marital Satisfaction in Older Adulthood: A Typology
(2014-06-24)
Research has generally supported the idea that older adult conflict resolution is different from that of younger adults and that more effective conflict resolution skills are positively associated with marital satisfaction ...
Believing Sexual Activity Makes One An Adult: Associations with Effective Parenting, and Adolescents' Educational Investments and Cumulative Sexual Risk-Taking
(2014-06-17)
Adolescent sexual risk-taking has been a hot topic in research and prevention work over the past decade, however, much of the research has focused on the environmental and biological predictors of sexual risk taking and ...
Normative Influences on the Non-Medical Use of Prescription Stimulants Among College Students
(2014-06-18)
Recent epidemiological data has indicated an increasing trend in the non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) among college students. NMUPD involves using a prescription medication without a prescription, or using the ...
Genomics of permthrin resistance in the Southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus Say
(2014-01-14)
The Southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, is a vector of several human diseases including West Nile fever and St. Louis encephalitis, owing to its blood feeding behavior whereby the female takes multiple blood ...