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Grief-Giver
(2021)Milsa, a young apothecary during the worst plague her home has ever seen, seeks to unravel the secrets of her city’s repressed religion and find the supernatural origins of the devasting disease after an encounter with ... -
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A Survey of the Treatment Termination Practices of Board Certified Behavior Analysts
(2021)An important feature of behavior analytic services is the end of the client-provider relationship, commonly referred to as termination. Terminating services is a process in which nearly all applied behavior analysts will ... -
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Respecting Relational Autonomy
(2021)Patient autonomy is one of the central moral principles practicing health professionals have been prompted to respect, owing to the development of technology and widespread critical examination of previous paternalistic ... -
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Treatment Integrity Reporting in JABA: 1980-2019
(2021)The purpose of the present investigation was to extend the Gresham et al.,(1993) study on the frequency of reporting data on treatment integrity (TI) in research involving children published in the Journal of Applied ... -
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Quantitative Analysis of Microstructural Evolution in Polycrystalline Metal Matrix with Embedded Second Phase Particle
(2021)The ubiquitous motion of grain boundaries is responsible for determining the unique microstructural patterns and stability of polycrystalline materials. By employing the versatile multi-phase field modeling methodology, ... -
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Advancing AFM Nanometrology Through Experimental FSI Quantification, Novel Sensor Design, and Fractional ODE-based Material Models
(2021)Nanometrology, which is the study of materials at the nanoscale, has been an important topic for the material science community at large. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) has become an indispensable tool to perform nanometrology. ... -
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A Scoping Study to Develop a Computational Fluid Dynamics Based Model to Predict Radiological Materials Packaging Temperatures within a Generic Staging Building
(2021)The objective of this work is to perform computational fluid dynamics simulations of a ventilated radiological-material-package staging building to determine the effect of including or excluding a variety of physical effects ... -
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EyeSightVR: An Immersive and Automated Tool for Comprehensive Assessment of Visual Function
(2021)The complexity of the human visual system enables the rich sensory immersion we have with our surroundings. When neuro-ophthalmic conditions ail this arrangement, it also affects the function of the eye. For early screening ... -
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Ondabuhku: Memme Newe Naibinee Gahni Gatte Gimmade
(2021)The project goal is to reclaim Shoshone coming-of-age womanhood ceremonies with a holistic based approach centered in Shoshone teachings – Newe Deniwappeh – that will culminate in an Ondabuhku Camp that centers matrilineal ... -
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Evaluation of Tire Rubber-Modified Asphalt Mixtures
(2021)In the late 1960’s, the use of scrap tire rubber (TR) started in Arizona, USA with the intent to modify the properties of asphalt binders used in paving applications. Nevertheless, few States allowed its use in selected ... -
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Herbivory by domestic and wild ungulates as drivers of aspen recruitment and understory composition throughout arid montane landscapes
(2021)Herbivory by wild and domestic ungulates influences tree recruitment and alters plant community composition in forests throughout the world. Herbivore-driven declines in tree recruitment have been widely observed for quaking ... -
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A Contribution to Variable Selection for the Cox Proportional Hazards Model with High-Dimensional Predictors
(2021)The aim of this thesis is to develop a variable selection framework with the spike-and-slab prior distribution via the hazard function of the Cox model. Specifically, we consider the transformation of the score and information ... -
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Silvan: An Immersive Software for Visualization and Mensuration of 3D LiDAR Point Clouds
(2021)Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) point clouds, data representations composed of a collectionof 3D positioned points each with location and intensity data embedded, have numerous applications particularly in the fields ... -
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Examining the Relationship Between Preschool Teachers’ Use of Social and Emotional Teaching Strategies and Children’s Challenging Behavior and Social Skills
(2021)Because there are immediate and long-term implications when preschool children exhibit challenging behavior in the classroom, it is crucial to prevent and address challenging behavior as early as possible. Social and ... -
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Case Study of Wintertime Thundersnow in the Lake Tahoe Region
(2021)On February 14, 2019 over 1,000 lightning strikes were recorded in the Sierra Nevada and western Nevada. This was part of an atmospheric river that impacted the entire state of California and produced substantial precipitation ... -
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The Very Princess
(2021)The Very Princess is a fantasy/drama novel about a monster slayer's quest for immortality. However, the difficulties of her world are more complex than she might have imagined. Joined by a cursed man named Carol, The Very ... -
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A Survey of the Treatment Termination Practices of Board Certified Behavior Analysts
(2021)An important feature of behavior analytic services is the end of the client-provider relationship, commonly referred to as termination. Terminating services is a process in which nearly all applied behavior analysts will ... -
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Respecting Relational Autonomy
(2021)Patient autonomy is one of the central moral principles practicing health professionals have been prompted to respect, owing to the development of technology and widespread critical examination of previous paternalistic ... -
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A Scoping Study to Develop a Computational Fluid Dynamics Based Model to Predict Radiological Materials Packaging Temperatures within a Generic Staging Building
(2021)The objective of this work is to perform computational fluid dynamics simulations of a ventilated radiological-material-package staging building to determine the effect of including or excluding a variety of physical effects ... -
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Case Study of Wintertime Thundersnow in the Lake Tahoe Region
(2021)On February 14, 2019 over 1,000 lightning strikes were recorded in the Sierra Nevada and western Nevada. This was part of an atmospheric river that impacted the entire state of California and produced substantial precipitation ...
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