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Packetized Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) Optical Networks
(December 2)The Internet today is dominated by more and more multimedia applications such as HD videos, VoIP services and online gaming, which have driven the bandwidth demand. Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) enables ... -
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Pain-related Anxiety and Smoking Processes: The Explanatory Role of Dysphoria
(2018)Scientific evidence suggests that pain-related anxiety may contribute to the maintenance of tobacco addiction among smokers with varying levels of pain. Yet, no work has investigated the relation between pain-related anxiety ... -
Paleocene Turbidite Deposition in the Central American Seaway (NW Costa Rica): Geochemical Analysis and Provenance of Detrital Spinel and Clinopyroxene
(2015-08)The Central American Land Bridge is the crucial connection between North and South America, and the Miocene closure of the Panama seaway led to a change in global oceanic circulation patterns. Modern Costa Rica is part ... -
Paleosol evolution in a sequence stratigraphic framework, Cretaceous Ferron Notom Delta, south central Utah, U.S.A.
(2014-05)Hydromorphic paleosols have been previously thought of as ever wet and poorly developed, and lacking useful paleoenviromental and paleoclimatic indicators. However, a suite of pedogenic features and geochemical attributes ... -
PALLADIUM-CATALYZED C–H BOND FUNCTIONALIZATION OF HETEROCYCLES AND AMINES
(2012-08)Palladium-catalyzed functionalization of C–H bonds is becoming an important synthetic tool that allows the preparation of desired substances in fewer steps and higher yields compared to traditional synthetic routes. The ... -
Parallel I/O for Shared Memory Applications using OpenMP
(2013-08)I/O is a major time-limiting factor in high performance computing (HPC) applications. The combined effects of hard drive latency and bandwidth make I/O the slowest operation in a system. A lot of work has been done in ... -
Parameter Optimization for Start-up of a Simultaneous Nitrification/Denitrification Membrane Aerated Bioreactor
(2015-08)Water is among the critical limited resources required to sustain human life in space. NASA has targeted 98% water recovery from wastewater in its efforts to transition from low earth orbit to long-duration exploration ... -
Parameters Estimation for Stochastic Genetic Evolution of Asexual Populations
(December 2)The evolution of asexual microorganisms depends primarily on their selective advantages (fitnesses) and mutation rates. Previous attempts to estimate these parameters failed for realistic cases with multiple mutations. ... -
Parametric Estimation of the Heston Model under the Indirect Observability Framework
(2014-08)Estimating parameters in a given stochastic model from a discrete dataset has wide applications in various scientific studies. However, it is also common that the available data are not generated from the stochastic model ... -
Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Gifted African American and White Students: Is There a Difference?
(2018-08-07)In American schools, African American students are underrepresented in gifted education programs while White students are overrepresented. School-based gifted identification referrals are primarily initiated by teacher ... -
Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Severity and Impairment Based on Childhood Mental Health Disorder Labels
(2016-08-04)The current study sought to investigate how emotional and behavioral disorder (EBD) diagnostic labels affect parent and teacher perceptions of disorder severity, treatment need, and extent of academic impairment. Children ... -
Parental Gestures and Their Role During Social Interactions with Deaf, Autistic and Typically Developing Children
(2018)The study aimed to understand how parental gestures are used and guide children’s attention by observing social interaction. The study specifically focused on parental gesture use and child’s gaze allocation of three ... -
Parental Involvement in an Appalachian Rural Community
(2012-05)During this era of high-stakes achievement testing, schools have looked for help to increase student achievement. One resource that schools have begun to take advantage of in order to boost student success is parental ... -
Parental Perceptions of the Effects of the high-Stakes TAKS Test on the Home Lives of At-Risk Fifth Grade Students
(2010-12)In Texas, fifth grade students are required to pass both the reading and math sections of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS test, in order to be promoted to the next grade level. The purpose of this ... -
Parenting After War: Service Member PTSD Symptomatology and Anxiety and Depression in Children
(December 2)Background: As the Global War on Terror (GWOT) continues, there is deep concern about the effects of repeated parental deployments on the well-being of America’s military-family children. While many military families have ... -
Parenting Stress and Child's Quality of Life on Parents' Expectation/Satisfaction and Medication Adherence with Asthmatic Child’s Therapy
(2017-01-03)Introduction: With about 300 million patients, projected to reach 400 million by 2025, asthma is responsible for about 250,000 premature deaths each year. The prevalence of asthma in the U.S. population has continued to ... -
Parents’ Expectation to Receive Antibiotic Prescription for Children
(2012-12)Background: The Centers for Disease Control indicated that in 2009, 90 million prescriptions were written for antibiotics in the United States, with half of those being "unnecessary or inappropriate". The highest rate of ...