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Uncovered : the cover-up of the My Lai massacre.

Sisson, Timothy.

In the midst of a war that was being fought not on open battlefields but in dense jungles, an atrocious event occurred in the presence of soldiers of the United States military. Over five hundred Vietnamese civilians, the ...

Understanding physical activity behavior among dialysis patients : a social cognitive approach.

Patterson, Megan S. (, )

While engaging in physical activity is important for the general population due to its documented health benefits (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011), it is especially beneficial to patients on dialysis. ...

Understanding the impact of Equine-Assisted Learning on levels of hope in at-risk adolescents.

Frederick, Karen E. (, )

In this study, the researcher uses an experimental design to investigate the impact of five-week intervention of group Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL) on levels of hope, self-efficacy, and depression in at-risk adolescents. ...

Understanding the world better than it understands itself: the theological hermeneutics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Bezner, Steven M.

This dissertation argues that Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s work is best understood as a consistent project of theological hermeneutics with an ecclesial focus. The project examines Bonhoeffer’s life and writings with the intention ...

Underutilization of medication to treat ADHD in African American children: reasoned action and planned behavior.

Embry, Elizabeth L.

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is one of the most common mental illness diagnoses given to children today. While African American children are diagnosed with the disorder at approximately the same rate as Anglo ...

Unemployment Duration under Wrongful Discharge Law

Nicholson, Kristin A.; North, Charles M.

In the 1970’s and 1980’s, courts in most U.S. states adopted some type of common law wrongful discharge cause of action. The various causes of action for wrongful discharge are generally placed into three categories: public ...

Unintended consequences : how agricultural subsidies are fueling the drug trade.

Johnson, Austin Phillip. (, )

The United States has historically subsidized its farmers directly and indirectly through a variety of different methods. In recent years, there has been evidence that OECD agricultural subsidies are leading farmers in ...

Unique fragmentation of pentafluorobenzylic alcohols and the use of modified injection port liners in the gas chromatographic-based screening for catalytic activity.

Fisher, Henry C.

An unprecedented reaction, the base-catalyzed fragmentation of pentafluorobenzylic alcohols, was investigated. Studies on a variety of C6F5-derived alcohols show that a dual reaction pathway occurs in mixed solvent systems ...

Uniqueness implies uniqueness and existence for nonlocal boundary value problems for fourth order differential equations.

Ma, Ding.

In this dissertation, we are concerned with uniqueness and existence of solutions of certain types of boundary value problems for fourth order differential equations. In particular, we deal with uniqueness implies uniqueness ...

Uniqueness implies uniqueness and existence for nonlocal boundary value problems for third order ordinary differential equations.

Gray, Michael Jeffery.

For the third order ordinary differential equation, $y'''=f(x,y,y',y'')$, it is assumed that, for some $m\geq 4$, solutions of nonlocal boundary value problems satisfying \[y(x_1)=y_1,\ y(x_2)=y_2,\] \[y(x_m)-\sum_{i= ...

Unit Delay Scheduling for the Inversion Algorithm

Maurer, Peter M.

The Inversion Algorithm is an event driven algorithm whose performance meets or exceeds that of Levelized Compiled Code simulation, even when the activity rate is unrealistically high. Existing implementations of the ...

Untimely Meditations on the Need for Roots: Imagining a Culture of Human Need in Nietzsche and Simone Weil

Abell, Jake

This thesis identifies and examines similar conceptions of culture and education in Nietzsche’s essay, “Schopenhauer as Educator” and Simone Weil’s book, The Need for Roots. The two writers share the premise that culture, ...

“Unusual Forces”: A Conceptual Model of the Realm between Naturalistic and Supernatural Healing

Shuler, Sunny

In contemporary research on spiritual healing, the traditional way to view healing is as occurring either because of naturalistic means (i.e., explainable by the popular scientific method and by reference to existing ...

Unwelcome orthodoxy: Anglican ascendancy, peculiar partnerships, and the conquering of Congregationalist contempt in eighteenth-century Connecticut.

Reid, Jonathan M.

Interpreting anew the ascendancy of the Church of England in eighteenth-century New England from the perspective of its own members is vital to transmitting a balanced history of the religious climate in the region at the ...

The use of new media in professional sport image repair theory : a case study of Michael Vick, Brett Favre, and Reggie Bush.

Mason, Hannah Noelle. (, )

Broadening the application of Benoit’s image repair theory, this case study compares and contrasts crisis management strategies of three NFL athletes, Michael Vick, Brett Favre, and Reggie Bush, to determine which methods ...

Using GF(2) matrices in Simulation and Logic Synthesis

Maurer, Peter M.

GF(2) matrices are matrices of ones and zeros under modulo 2 arithmetic. Like the GF(2) polynomials used in error detection and correction, they have many potential uses in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Non-singular ...

Using GF2 Matrices to Simplify Boolean Logic

Maurer, Peter M.

Conventional logic simplification can be couched in terms of singular GF(2) matrices. The advantage to doing this is that different matrices can be used to combine terms that are separated by a Hamming distance greater ...

Using in vitro to in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE) to develop toxicity metrics for human health risk assessment of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).

Pree, Krystal. (, )

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardants found in many industrial components, such as furniture foam, consumer electronics, plastics, and textiles and levels have increased in humans over the past few ...

Using multiple parameters to compare effluent quality of eight wastewater treatment systems.

Price, Amy E. (, )

Wastewater effluent qualities from two study sites in central Texas were compared using whole effluent toxicity (WET) tests and chemical indicator parameters. Three of the effluents were collected from the City of Whitney ...

Using photovoice as a PAR/CBPR qualitative data collection tool for the health of women participating in AVANCE-El Paso programs.

Garcia, Lindsay K. Hendryx.

Photovoice is a qualitative data collection tool combining photography and participant narratives to create descriptive evidence of everyday health realities. This research study was an implementation of photovoice as a ...

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