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K-12 Curriculum and Robotics to Address the Workforce Shortage and Advancement of Computing
(2018)Development and novel research contributions for computing and robotics technologies requires a workforce with mastery of computing. However, this goal is currently strained due to issues of education, access, and discernment ... -
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K-8 Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs for Teaching Mathematics
(2013)AbstractMathematics knowledge and skills serve as the "gatekeeper" to students' choice of college majors, success obtaining college degrees, and entry into the workforce. However, on the mathematics portion of standardized ... -
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K-Theory for AF Algebras
(2014)K-theory for C*-algebras provides a means ofestablishing stable and complete*-isomorphism invariants.This work reestablishes the results of Elliot, Dixmier, Bratteli andElliot pertaining to the formation of a complete ... -
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Kaposi's Sarcoma: Literature Review on the Mechanism of Kaposi's Sarcoma encoded Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen and a Clinical Case Study
(2013)Whether genetic, geographic, or acquired; a multitude of factors can bring about Herpesvirus 8 induced Kaposi’s Sarcoma, of which four subtypes have been identified: Classic, African endemic, AIDS-related, and iatrogenic ... -
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Keeping Up Appearances: Cosmetics in Sulphur, Nevada
(2011)Sulphur, Nevada is an abandoned mining settlement in northwestern Nevada that was settled in the early 20th century. Archaeological work conducted at the site in 2009 and 2010 revealed the presence of an unusual number ... -
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Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Magnetized Plasma
(2012)Sheared flows, found in many systems in the universe, are generally Kelvin-Helmholtz unstable. If the medium is ionized, the presence of a magnetic field can influence the evolution of this instability; depending on its ... -
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Keystone: A Streaming Data Management Model for the Environmental Sciences
(2019)In this thesis we explore a problem facing contemporary data management in the earth and environmental sciences: effective production of uniform and quality data products which keeps pace with the volume and velocity of ... -
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Khovanov Homology on Symmetric Unions of Certain 2-Bridge Knots
(2011)Symmetric unions, originally introduced in 1957 by Shin’ichi Kinoshita and Hide- taka Terasaka [3], have since been studied due to their failure to be distinguished by some invariants. In his 2000 paper, Mikhail Khovanov ... -
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Kindergarten Program Type as a Predictor for Reading Achievement in Third Grade
(2012)Kindergarten programming, being full and half-day, has been in the forefront of educational topics since 1837. Today, proponents advocate for full-day programming for various reasons including the notion that increased ... -
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Kinematics and Transfer Mechanisms of Strain Accommodation at the Transition between the Northern and Central Walker Lane, Western Nevada
(2017)The Walker Lane is a relatively young and developing tectonic intraplate boundary, where ~20% of the dextral motion between the Pacific and North American plates is accommodated. Paralleling the more discrete, well-developed, ... -
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Kinetic Modeling of Ultraintense X-ray Laser-Matter Interactions
(2016)Although hard-x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have only existed since 2009 when the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at Stanford created its first laser pulse, their unique capabilities have already had a profound ... -
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Knockdown of CSN3 inhibits skeletal muscle differentiation and alters cardiomyocyte hypertrophy
(2012)Cardiac hypertrophy is an early marker of heart failure, and understanding the signaling pathways involved in stimulating the pathological hypertrophic process may lead to the discovery of novel therapeutic strategies to ... -
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Knoop microhardness anisotropy on the cleavage plane of single crystals with the calcite structure
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1991)Knoop microhardness profiles were determined on the (1011) cleavage planes for a series of natural rhombohedral carbonate single crystals, including calcite, magnesite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithsonite, and the ... -
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Knot Groups and Their Homomorphisms into SU(2)
(2019)We begin with an introduction to algebraic topology, knot theory, and SU(2) matrices as a subset of the quaternions, then proceed to introduce a technique of finding homomorphisms of knot complement fundamental groups into ... -
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Knowledge and Attitudes of Nurses on Pressure Injury Prevention and Care
(2020)AbstractEach year, more than 2.5 million people develop pressure injuries, which contribute to pain, infection risk, and increased healthcare utilization, and are considered indicators of quality of care. Knowledge and ... -
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KSHV encoded viral processivity factor, ORF59, regulates multiple pathways for viral replication
(2017)Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV), or human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), is a tumorigenic herpesvirus tightly linked with various human malignancies including Kaposi’s Sarcoma, Primary Effusion Lymphomas (PELs), and ... -
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La construcción y el papel de la identidad vasca en la literatura vasco americana
(2013)The last quarter of the twentieth century celebrated the advancement of multiculturalism in several scholarly fields. As Western criticism left behind its penchant for ethnocentric and binary opposition hermeneutics, so ... -
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La New Mujer: How Economic Factors Redefine Gender Roles for Latina Immigrants
(2010)This study posits that Latina immigrants who participate in the U.S. workforce are empowered to redefine traditional gender roles as they gain economic autonomy. The scholar focuses on how gender roles are changing with ... -
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La Vida Nueva: Detainees, Arkansans, And Libertad During the Cuban Refugee Crisis of 1980-1983
(2023)Fort Chaffee, Arkansas and the surrounding communities were at the center of racial discrimination throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The area also serves as a case study for the treatment of Cubans during the Mariel ... -
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Labor, Limits, and Liberty: A Study of Day Laborers at a Grassroots Collective in Southern California
(2018)AbstractDay laborers in the United States have increasingly become a source of labor in the informal economy due to the pressure for businesses to reduce labor costs (Gonzalez 2007; Ordóñez 2016; Valenzuela 2001). Day ...