A comprehensive survey of aquatic plant communities in Pickerel Lake, Colchester/East Haddam, Connecticut, was conducted during the growing season of most regional macrophyte species (May 2001 to October 2001). Five weed maps were constructed to...
This examination of Nobody, a punning image in words and pictures of an imaginary person without a torso, was initiated by how often he appeared in different guises in the English satirical prints of the eighteenth century. For many years Nobody...
Child development; Child care workers -- Rating of
The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of a newly-developed questionnaire, The Child Development Index (CDI), designed to assess child care teachers’ knowledge of child development. The CDI was developed in...
Child molesters -- New Jersey -- Registers; Child sexual abuse -- New Jersey -- Prevention
Today, all 50 states in the United States of America have created a system of registration and notification for convicted sex offenders. These laws were quickly enacted in the past several years in response to horrific crimes against children that...
The mouse frizzy (fr) mutation is a Mendelian recessive trait that affects hair structure and formation in mice. The mutation arose in a mouse of mixed origin at the Jackson Lab (Bar Harbor, ME) in 1951. Frizzy is known to be linked to other genes...
This work deals with the construction of zero mean curvature surfaces in the three dimensional anti de-Sitter space. The method that was used was to look for examples that can be described using polynomial equations. More precisely, we are looking...
Transforming growth factor-alpha (TGFa), a member of the endothelial growth
factor (EGF) family of mitogens, was previously thought to exist solely in neoplastic
cells and the quickly dividing cells of a developing fetus. Since then, TGFa...
Eightmile River (New London County and Middlesex County, Conn.); Water quality -- Connecticut
Water quality is a function of the ecosystem within which the water body exists. Ensuring access to clean water has become a priority for many nations. The waters we rely on for drinking, cleaning, and recreation are affected by factors such as...
Determining what exactly "works" as far as rehabilitating offenders, particularly women with dual diagnosis (i.e., mental health and substance abuse), can be a difficult task. Recent research has turned its focus to looking at the effects of both...
The traprock ridge environments of Connecticut and Massachusetts are unique and little studied. This project examined the combination of tree and shrub species, their abundance, their dispersion pattern, and the pattern of succession on the Onion...
Over the past 22 years there has been a lot of discussion about global temperature change and it’s possible effect on all elements of hurricanes and tropical storms including intensity, duration, rainfall, and number. Some have said that the...
The tick has ability to transmit a greater variety of infectious agents to humans and other animal species than any other blood-feeding arthropod. Feeding over a period of days induces specific host hemostatic, inflammatory, and immune responses....
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:...
The present study examined whether relationships between
personality characteristics and emotional reactions to mass
media exist. Specifically, the purpose of this study was
to find out if anxiety sensitivity, neuroticism and
depression, may make...
“Was mathematics invented or discovered?” This is an age old question that has yet to be definitively answered. Some people believe that the human mind is the creator of mathematics, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. [N, p....
Ahearn et al. (J. Heredity 93:210-213) have previously shown that the rat fuzzy and Charles River "hairless" mutations are defects in the same gene on rat Chromosome 1, and are likely orthologues of mouse frizzy (abbreviated fr) on mouse Chromosome...
Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation; African American women in literature; African Americans in literature; Stigma (Social psychology); Psychic trauma in literature
Toni Morrison is considered one of the greatest living American writers. A close reading of three of her novels (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved) reveals the connection between her novels and Erving Goffman‘s theory of stigma—a connection that...
The male sterility and histoincompatibility mutation (mshi) is an autosomal recessive mutation that produces apparently pleiotropic effects in mice. Mice homozygous for mshi manifest two distinct phenotypes. In both male and female mice, the...
What began as a competition to appease a member of royalty's birthday wishes, continued on to not only introduce an entirely new area of mathematical studies but also to leave one particular question to remain without a complete and substantiated...
Religion and sociology; Criminology -- Religious aspects
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between criminal thinking and religiosity (beliefs and behaviors) of non-offenders. Parishioners were recruited from a United Methodist Church in an urban area of Hartford, Connecticut. ...
