One of the main causes of bridge failure is scour at the abutments or piers. Scour is caused by increased velocities of water through bridge openings. Sediment is carried away from the foundations by high flows causing ...

OBJECTIVE: Many individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) take multiple medications on a regular basis, also referred to as polypharmacy. In other patient populations, polypharmacy has been associated with fatigue and ...

One spring day, an elderly man from the city, Daniel Howitt, enters the Ozark Mountains, ostensibly on a vacation to improve his health, which has suffered due to events concerning his believed long-dead son, Howard, ...

At age 24, Song Byeok became an official state propaganda artist under the totalitarian Kim regime of North Korea. After famine, family death, torture and prison camp, Song escaped from North Korea in 2002 and continued ...

This thesis addresses multiple social and psychological implications found within three types of theatre and their communities and audiences. In particular it embraces the theory that people can benefit from the group-healing ...

Wireless communication systems have shown a tremendous development in recent years. New technologies are born day to day. With today's technology, users can communicate with each other from any corner of the world. But ...

Coal has been studied for its extensive capability of adsorbing CO2 in exchange for coalbed CH4. Various sorption models have been developed and enhanced in order to precisely understand the implications of carbon ...

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) has become a popular data model for representing data on the Web. Using RDF, any assertion can be represented as a (subject, predicate, object) triple. Essentially, RDF datasets ...

Database security is one of the most important issues for any organization, especially for financial institutions such as banks. Protecting database from external threats is relatively easier and a number of effective ...

In recent years, the Resource Description Framework (RDF) [34] has become increasingly important for the Web and in domains such as defense and healthcare. Companies such as the New York Times [40], Best Buy [39], and ...

Underachievement in algebra along lines of race, class, and gender is a striking and pervasive phenomenon in the Colombian educational system. Black and poor students persistently lag behind their mestizo and wealthier ...

We observe the application of Bonaventura Cavalieri’s (1598 - 1647) method of “indivisibles,” a mathematical method popular in the early 17th century for finding the area contained by curvilinear spaces, to the problem ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This research examined the relationship between perceived presidential leadership styles and faculty job satisfaction in Illinois Community Colleges. ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] As one of the most commonly used materials, magnesium oxide (also known as magnesia or MgO) has many applications in the modern world because it is ...

With burgeoning population growth and widespread economic development world energy consumption is constantly on the rise. Currently most of our energy requirements are met through fossil fuels which are non-renewable. The ...

This quantitative content analysis draws from framing theory to examine newspaper coverage of fisheries in collapse. Two groups of newspaper articles formed the population for this census: coverage of the Georges Bank cod ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Several problems in computational biology require the all-against-all pairwise comparisons of tens of thousands of individual biological sequences. ...

This thesis will identify artistic sensibilities and leadership characteristics of the American architect Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912). It will assert that this particular architect had enormous impact on urbanism in ...

To date, a growing number of contemporary Americans have come to trust that recognizable commodity brands and personal consumer preferences now provide the best means of personalizing funerals and communicating individualized ...