by Robbins (2005), my research reevaluates the utility and motivation behind sorority women's use of clothing, styles, and consumption. Rather than being illustrations of groupthink or conformity, sorority women's use of symbols, brands, styles, and language...

in challenge past one's skill level can produce greater levels of enjoyment in any certain activity in which we engage (Csikszentmihalyi,1999; Pearce, Ainley & Howard, 2005). This study was an attempt to add a slight increase in challenge of trail users at Katy...

, the commonly accepted performance standard for sequestration (Hepple and Benson, 2005). Mineralogical analysis also indicates a grain matrix composed almost entirely of quartz which is non-reactive with CO2; this indicates that dissolution of the grain matrix...

its social availability. Over 85% of Missouri’s forests are privately owned, indicating that without the state’s private landowners’ acceptance utilizing woody biomass as bioenergy feedstock to the energy industry is impossible. Data was collected...

include environmental factors, such as atmospheric effects, illumination, moisture conditions, and inherent spectral variability of the material itself, such as the variations in biophysical and biochemical composition in vegetation (Song, 2005). Under...

will have warmer affective attitudes toward homosexuality with 2005 data from the World Values Survey. I find that even after controlling for normal predictors of homosexual tolerance (i.e., gender, education, religion, partisanship, and political ideology...

stream for both real time playback and full quality storage, where the QoS requirements of the two targets are different. We design a joint streaming protocol to fully exploit the available bandwidth to deliver both real-time and retransmitted packets...

Change over time can be modeled through a variety of statistical techniques including, but not limited to, linear or quadratic slope-intercept (SI), repeated-measures MANOVA, and single-factor growth models. Choice of ...

Although past research has tested the effects of alcohol related priming on behavior and judgments, previous studies have not investigated the effects of alcohol primes on judgments specific to drinking and driving. Based ...

Fluorescent probes have found several uses in monitoring the physiological state of cells. Recently, the Glass lab has developed a fluorescent sensor capable of binding norepinephrine in chromaffin cell vesicles. This ...

to which polypharmacy and off-label prescribing occur in routine practice and the degree to which child characteristics, child psychiatrist characteristics, and medication availability may influence these prescribing practices. We found that child...

There is growing concern about the loss of biodiversity; particularly of organisms at higher trophic levels, such as predators, which face a disproportionately higher risk of extinction. As predator diversity declines there ...

Are intentions to become happier through interventions helpful or detrimental to the pursuit of happiness? Although Schooler, Ariely, and Lowenstein (2003) suggest that intentionally pursuing happiness is a self-defeating ...

Metabotropic glutamate receptors impact learning and memory. The current studies examined the effects of AMN082, a recently discovered selective metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 (mGluR7) allosteric agonist, on the acquisition ...

The purpose of this study is to explore privacy preferences of elderly residents and their relatives at assisted living facilities. In the past year, there has been a large increase in the interest and concept of accessing ...

3D shape modeling is essential for computer to understand our real world. So far, 3D shaping modeling is still an open issue. There are too much raw data around, but there is no uniform or standard way to translate them ...

Rats administered a metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) positive allosteric modulator (PAM), CDPPB, and/or an NMDA receptor antagonist, MK-801, were given inhibitory avoidance or conditioned taste aversion training. ...

In this work, we develop a license plate detection method using a SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifier with HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradients) features. The system performs window searching at different scales and ...

This study provides a behavioral characterization of the TgCRND8 mouse strain, an APP (double-mutant) transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease (AD). While past research focused mainly on 2-5 month-old TgCRND8 mice, this ...

Disruptive behavior in the classroom can interrupt the development of academic and social behavior competence (Sutherland & Oswald, 2005). Problem behavior in the classroom often causes teachers to interrupt instruction and may influence others...