This thesis explores the inclusion of race as a factor for consideration in the best interest of the child test for custody and access determinations through the lens of Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Feminism. ...

This study examined three research questions pertaining to J.E. Helms' (1984) racial identity development model to determine whether its predictions for general minority and majority populations are valid for three minority ...

This work revolves around the development of microfluidic technology for use in biomedical diagnostics with a specific focus on analyte concentration. At the reduced scale inherent with microfluidic technologies the sensing ...

A change in the atmospheric inventory of a greenhouse gas produces a radiative forcing on the atmosphere which results in climatic change. Thus to understand climate change resulting from perturbations to atmospheric ...

The central goal of this thesis is to direct attention to the underappreciated role that radical media has played in communicating social movement messages, which challenge dominant discourses and politicize youth culture, ...

Packet-switched wireless data networks built upon IP (Internet Protocol)-based infrastructure are being envisioned to provide ubiquitous Internet access to mobile users. Supporting packet-data services along with the ...

Childhood obesity and chronic disease rates have reached epidemic proportions, but policy responses remain focused on individual health promotion rather than environmental change. This paper reveals the limitations of the ...

Improvements to radiation therapy treatment outcomes rely, in part, on consideration of patient specific radiosensitivity. Therefore an assay which quantifies radiation-induced biochemical changes, and subsequently ...

In models for networks of regulatory interactions in biological molecules, the sigmoid relationship between concentration of regulating bodies and the production rates they control has lead to the use of continuous time ...

In this thesis, we study cluster analysis of time series and develop a new mixture model which is effective for such analysis. Our study is motivated by a real life problem of clustering time series of electricity load ...