<p>This study was conducted using data that was collected as part of the National Income Dynamic Study(NIDS). We hypothesized that in the NIDS study conducted in South Africa this phenomenon would be observed as a rise in ...

<p>Established in 1922, the Soviet women's journal Rabotnitsa i Krest'ianka acted as agent of the Communist Party by supporting its effort to assume the role of mothers and take full responsibility for Russia's children ...

<p>Flooding is the leading cause of losses from natural disasters in the United States, responsible for over 140 deaths a year (United States Geological Survey [USGS], 2006 and 2012). Dynamic inundation mapping, or using ...

<p>Accurate IP geo-location is crucial to the effectiveness of a wide array of Internet-based services ranging from targeted advertising and website localization to content delivery, security logging and authentication. ...

<p>The purpose of this research was to analyze education inequality in rural China as reflected in government funding policy on education. Specifically, the research looks whether extra-budgetary income is a dis-equalizing ...

<p>This thesis addresses the problem of information-driven sensor path planning for the purpose of target detection, measurement, and classification using non-holonomic mobile sensor agents (MSAs). Each MSA is equipped ...

<p>Many proteins that are required for eukaryotic cell growth, differentiation, and cellular signaling pathways, including the Ras superfamily of GTP-binding proteins, go through prenylation, a post-translational modification ...

<p>This cross-cultural study investigates the challenges affecting HIV+ women in rural Kenya and Durham, North Carolina. Examining the linkages between social support and coping, the study finds that many experiences with ...

<p>Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) has allowed a large degree of healthy tissue sparing while delivering therapeutic dose to tumors. However, the treatment planning process for IMRT is iterative and time ...

<p>This thesis characterizes the nonlinear behavior of an experimental system that exhibits snap-through buckling behavior. A single-degree-of-freedom snap-through link model is harmonically forced using a Scotch yoke ...