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Although the United States has witnessed a liberalization of attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights since the 1980s, Christians–and particularly evangelical Christians–have liberalized more slowly than ...

This study aims to investigate the re-presentation of self-images of Hong Kong in the English translations of Hong Kong Chinese poetry made between the years 1983-2010. Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory is employed as the major framework for ...

This thesis gives details of the work carried out to develop real-time control software for a robot-based Flexible Manufacturing System.The role of control software is reviewed by reference to various Flexible Manufacturing Systems that have been ...

Patient decision support technology provides increasingly more opportunitiesto support disease self-management in the healthcare setting. However, it doescome with a disruptive impact on the health provision between health providerand patient. ...

Intersectional analyses have made clear that Black women as a group fare far worse in employment outcomes than their race and gender counterparts. However, there is little research that examines differences among Black women. The purpose of this ...

This thesis consists two separate topics. Chapter One is joint work with Professor J. Griggs on (0,1)-matrix without half-half submatrix being all 1's. Let f(m, n) be the least number of 0's in any 2m $\times$ 2n (0,1)-matrix such that there is no $m \...

Circular arc coloring has applications in cyclic scheduling. In general, coloring circular arcs has proved to be a NP-Complete problem. Coloring proper circular arcs recently has been formulated as a shortest-path distance problem with negative edges by ...

Dynamic soil-structure interaction (DSSI) has been a topic of great interest during the last decades. Several investigations have shown the importance of considering the soil as part of the structural design evaluation, since the response of the ...

1. Dual amine/pi Lewis acid catalyst systems have been reported for intramolecular direct additions of aldehydes/ketones to unactivated alkynes and occasionally alkenes, but related intermolecular reactions are rare. We reasoned that bulky metal ...

The following work is composed of two separate Parts: In the first part, Chapter 1 the semigroup of Maicev (2) which is known not to be embeddable in a group, is proved that it can be turned into a (fully ordered semigroup. This answers negatively ...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most diagnosed conduct disorder in children and one of the most common disorders of neurophysiological development in the paediatric population. Related to huge amount of publications in the ...

Techniques for reducing the data rate of speech coders have many potential applications in speech communications and speech storage systems. This study makes three contributions to the state-of-the-art of digital speech compression. The first is the ...

Nuclear magnetic resonance techniques have been applied to the study of two biological systems. Specifically, 13C nmr spin-lattice relaxation times (T1s) have been applied to a model biomembrane and also to the subject of protein denaturation.In ...

Ceria is a highly commercial, valuable material. Its diverse set of real-world applications demonstrates its far-reaching influence on modern society. Indeed, one only has to consider its extensive employment as an essential component of ...

The 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States sparked a whirlwind of national optimism and cultural fantasy that challenged America's linked conceptions of race, "civilization," and power. This dissertation argues that, over the brief course of ...

The thesis argues that the film songs in the 1950s, often termed the 'golden era' of films and film music, function as an integral narrative device of the cinema's engagement with the national discourse and with socio-political issues. The songs ...

The 1953 coup in Iran that overthrew the elected government of Mohammad Mosaddeq had a profound effect on Iranian history and U.S.-Iranian relations. The covert operation by the U.S. and British intelligence agencies abruptly ended a period of ...

Life is complex, and its underlying chemistry is an intricate orchestration of trillions of molecules that must interact in concert, all at the right time. Proteins are the key players in this complex network and they function efficiently in the ...