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 …
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 …
