Construction workers -- Substance use -- United States; Construction workers -- Drug testing -- United States
A career in construction exposes a tradesperson to an ever changing environment with known as well as unknown hazards. Unfortunately one of the unknowns is the use of illicit substances and the abuse of legal medications by some of the workers. ...
A-to-I RNA editing is an enzymatic reaction commonly found in the nervous system of various organisms. The mechanism behind this post-transcriptional modification is the hydrolytic deamination of Adenosine to Inosine by a family of enzymes known as...
Judaism; Zionism; Israel; Israel and the diaspora; Israel--Politics and government--1993-
After introducing the reader to a brief history of Judaism, this thesis describes the connection that Jewish people have with their land. A premise that is central to understanding Jewish history is the continued unity of the Jewish nation, even in...
Although high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLCC) is the standard technique for the analysis of most pharmaceutical finished products and raw materials, voltammetric techniques, such as cyclic voltammetry, are rarely used for such analyses....
Beginning in the 1890s, Connecticut began building a network of "good" roads – rural highways designed to be traveled in all types of weather and during all seasons. The original impetus behind this program was to open the rural areas of the...
Mathematics -- Remedial teaching; Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Can low achieving mathematics students succeed in the study of linear inequalities and linear programming through real world problem based instruction? This study sought to answer this question by comparing two groups of low achieving mathematics...
Concern about youth access to tobacco products has prompted a number of communities to initiate actions to limit such access. The present study examines the relationship between the level of community mobilization and local "buy rates" through the...
Considering the pleiotropic manifestations of the rare, inherited, bone marrow failure disease, Fanconi Anemia, afflicted patients must be evaluated and monitored by specialty physicians (such as dermatologists, opthamologists, gastroenterologists,...
Cultural awareness -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States; Language and culture -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States; Inquiry-based learning
Due to globalization, multiculturalism, and the necessity of context while learning a language, the study of culture is becoming increasingly more important. Currently, world language teachers spend most of their instructional time teaching grammar...
In 1952, Pinnacle Heights became the second public housing project in New Britain, Connecticut that was a product of the state's Moderate Rental Housing Program. Completed in 1954, Pinnacle Heights provided 450 units of modern affordable public...
Intranets (Computer networks); Integrated library systems (Computer systems)
In 1997, a communication review was conducted for a multi-site university library system. Most of the recommendations that resulted were implemented. A recommendation to develop an intranet for the library system was deferred pending a more...
In Alfred Chandler's The Visible Hand, written over two decades ago, the author answers a simple question, how best to explain the rise of the modern business in the United States? While regarding new technologies and burgeoning markets as...
Latin American drama -- History and criticism; Latin American drama -- 20th century
In this research study, based on eight contemporary Latin American plays. I examine the characterization strategies utilized by the authors in order to reflect the crisis of the modern Hispanic man. The titles and playwrights are the following:...
School management and organization -- Longitudinal studies
In this thesis I explored, through in-depth literature review, survey, and teacher interviews, the value and feasibility of creating and maintaining a K-12 student portfolio that would present a learning history of each student over an extended...
Let X and Z be topological spaces and Y be a subspace of X. A con-
tinuous function f : Y ! Z is extendable to X if there exists a continuous
function f : X ! Z such that f(x) = f(x) for all x 2 Y . If every continuous
function f : Y ! Z is...
Media images are extremely powerful forces in modern American society. These images with which we are constantly bombarded by living in a capitalistic society can without a word portray to millions messages of prejudice, love, hate, happiness,...
Minor histocompatibility (H) antigens are typically identified as barriers to transplantation in graft exchange experiments between major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-matched hosts (Bailey 1975; Snell and Bunker 1960). This approach has allowed...
Paraíba is one of nine states of the Northeast of Brazil. The Northeast is regarded as Brazil’s birthplace, where millions of African captives were shipped by the Portuguese. It is considered one of the poorest areas in Brazil. Yet, in 1985...
Pharmacy -- Study and teaching; Pharmacy -- Study and teaching -- Fluorescein; Hospitals -- Home care programs
Pharmacy technicians compound sterile I.V. solutions to be administered to
patients in hospitals, long term care facilities and in home care settings. These products
must be prepared without contamination. This necessitates sound aseptic techniques...
RNA editing is a mechanism which is used to increase the number of possible protein products from a specific gene. The catalytic enzymes for RNA editing are known to be present in a wide variety of organisms, including many different insects. It...