Wallace Stevens' reconciliation, Brown University honors theses, 1961. Vol. 1, American civilization, American literature, Applied mathematics, 1-SIZE 1-N HO 1961 1, …
Sixty-two three- and four-year old children were tested in Day Care Centers in the Providence, R. I. area. Three experiments were administered. In Experiment I, …
Constraint Query Languages assume that the relations in the database represent data implicitly by constraint specifications. Unlike standard database query languages, Constraint Query Languages allow …
The goal of this work was to provide a foundation for quantitative assessment of H2O abundance of terrestrial and extraterrestrial geologic materials using visible-near infrared …
Researchers have long sought to identify the factors contributing to individual differences in vocabulary development. Some attributed these to individuals' speech processing abilities, and others …
To become productive language users, learners must assign words to grammatical categories such as noun, verb or adjective. This supports linguistic productivity as newly learned …
Various mechanisms govern pattern formation in chemical and biological reaction systems, giving rise to structures with distinct morphologies and physical properties. The self-organization of polymerizing …
In my dissertation, "Women Healers Crossing Gender Role Boundaries in Old French Narrative," I examine the role and representation of women healers in the literature …
Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) with poor physico-chemical properties such as low solubility or inappropriate lipophilicity often present significant challenges in formulation developments and preclinical investigations. …
Two dimensional electronic systems exhibit a wide variety of phenomena including the quantum Hall effect, weak and strong localization, and metal-insulator transitions, including the superconductor …
The delineation and description of objects in an image is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Current approaches that delineate objects from an image in …
This dissertation studies Arturo Pérez-Reverte's literary work in relation to Spanish canonical writers Benito Pérez Galdós and Miguel de Unamuno. It explores how Pérez-Reverte's social …
This dissertation develops a theory of maritime procurement that focuses upon the fishing strategies of small-scale commercial fishers who work in a highly stressed estuarine …
The purpose of this dissertation is to gain a better understanding of how American adults in established relationships make decisions about contraception. The data consist …
This doctoral work is mainly motivated by statistical challenges emerging from personalized medicine in the context of care for cancer patients. We propose methodology to …
Psychologists tout many prosocial benefits of empathy, including helping and moral behaviours, the inhibition of aggression, the encouragement of forgiveness and trust and the reduction …
The study of shapes and their similarities is central in computer vision, in that it allows to recognize and classify objects from their representation. One …
This dissertation is centered on two areas: (i) rational design and synthesis of robust porous metal-organic frameworks using well-defined building blocks and (ii) synthesis of …
In order to understand the stress behaviors in thin films, three related topics were investigated. First, intrinsic stress generation mechanisms were studied by in-situ stress …
My dissertation explores the problem of experience in the work of three twentieth-century American poets: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill. In the broadest …
This thesis studies the shergottite family of martian meteorites using a variety of experiments performed on natural and synthetic samples. The study determines the crystallization …
Studies of two nanoscale systems with important engineering applications, Al-Si nanocomposites and Au nanoasperities, are investigated using molecular dynamics. The first system is studied in …
It is widely assumed that differences in wing morphology among bat species are reflected by interspecific differences in flight performance, and consequently, in the way …
In this thesis, new aspects of localized surface plasmon polaritons and their applications are considered in nanoscale structures. First, the optical response of pairwise electromagnetically …
The high rate of migration of young people to urban and economic centers in the context of persistent poverty and devastating HIV/AIDS burden raise intricate …
Many lithic analyses in recent decades have focused on the influence of lithic production techniques and artifact stages in the discard form of stone tools. …
In this thesis, we develop the medial scaffold (MS) technology, a graph-based medial axis (MA) representation, which is applied to model 3D shapes in a …
This thesis presents the techniques we have developed in analyzing brain signals obtained from the most commonly used brain imaging methods, e.g., EEG/MEG and fMRI …
Background: Although depression is prevalent among working-aged Medicaid enrollees with physical disabilities, the association of depression and health service utilization has not been examined in …
This dissertation discusses two related clinical applications of visible regime diffuse reflectance spectroscopy as well as two new configurations of liquid crystal microspectrometer suitable in …
The volatile metabolite geosmin is a degraded sesquiterpene that is responsible for the characteristic smell of moist soil. Geosmin is produced by a wide range …
We explore the interactions between engineered nanoscale structures (primarily nanopores and nanotubes) and biomolecules on three inter-related fronts: DNA and protein separation, drug delivery, and …
Little recent research exists identifying home health agency (HHA) organizational and market characteristics that influence home health quality. This study, grounded in organizational sociology, had …
Most protocol analyses only address security properties. However, other properties are important and can increase our understanding of protocols, as well as aid in the …
Partial melting of the mantle occurs predominantly in the spinel lherzolite stability field, where pyroxenes are consumed to produce olivine and basaltic melt. The phase …
Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1965-1990 explores how social and political movements redefined the meaning of citizenship …
For non-stoichiometric oxide thin films (e.g. ceria and titania) in constrained geometries the variation in oxygen partial pressures lead to stresses, thus termed compositional stresses. …
Pulsed gradient spin-echo (PGSE) diffusion NMR spectroscopy was designed to measure diffusion coefficients and deduce the hydrodynamic radii of molecules in solution. By incorporation of …
This study used a signal detection approach to examine two possible psychophysical time scales, log timing and linear timing, with rats and human subjects. Subjects' …
This dissertation explores the historical determinants of comparative economic development. The first chapter examines theoretically and empirically the economic origins of ethnic and linguistic diversity. …
The aim of this dissertation is to bring to light innovative ? and until recently, thoroughly ignored ? theoretical discussions of the concepts of "actuality" …
An experimental study of electric field induced surface diffusion is presented. A FEM analysis and a stability analysis of conducting surfaces subjected to a normal …
This thesis describes a theoretical and experimental investigation of the photoacoustic effect generated by the thermal nonlinearity of water, and the subsequent bubble production in …
Recently, there has been significant interest in applications where high-volume, continuous data streams need to be processed with low latency. Such applications include financial market …
Hypervelocity collisions generate extreme pressure and temperature conditions at the point of impact. Materials that reach high enough temperatures will emit light in the visible …
Detailed textural, mineralogical and chemical analyses of extraterrestrial materials have raised numerous questions about the igneous evolution and cooling histories of their parent bodies. Remote …
Desirable cytocompatibility properties of nano-sized ceramics were combined with the tunable degradability and deformability of a select polymer (poly-lactide-co-glycolide, or PLGA) to optimize biological and …