This study focused on the outcomes achieved by students participating in a co-curricular service-learning experience, specifically alternative spring break trips. Both curricular and co-curricular service learning are ...

Diesel engines are widely used because of their high efficiency and low “greenhouse gas” emission. The particulate matter (PM) emitted by a diesel engine is collected and then burned in a diesel particulate filter (DPF). ...

Transition metal-catalyzed functionalization of C-H bonds has been used as a powerful tool for the construction of C-C and C-heteroatom bonds. Within this dissertation, methods that allow functionalization of C-H bonds via ...

This dissertation presents two different projects, the first being the use of boronic acids in conjugate addition reactions on different substituted indoles, and the second discusses the strategies toward the synthesis of ...

Layered silicates are used for organic/inorganic hybrid fillers to reinforce the polymers. Dispersion of polymer and layered silicate is important because phase separation leads to weak interaction which makes poor property ...

Transition metal ketimide (R2C=N-) complexes were synthesized. The mononuclear M(N=C-t-Bu2)4 (M = Zr, Hf, Cr, Mo, W, and Re) complexes were found to have tetrahedral (Zr and Hf), flattened tetrahedral (Cr, Mo, and W), and ...

This thesis is concerned with the synthesis of monomeric ruthenium complexes and diruthenium complexes with Tp or Cp derivatives and their ruthenium-catalyzed propargylic substitution reactions. First, the mononuclear ...

The rapid development in semiconductor detector technology at CERN has provided the capability to develop an active personal dosimeter for use in space radiation environments. The work reported here is based on the Timepix ...

The purpose of the present study was to examine gender assignment in second language Spanish at an advanced-beginner level. It also aimed to describe the nature of the relationship between the presence or absence of the ...

Game-based learning (GBL) remains an exciting idea in the realm of serious games, with hopes that games can be used as educational tools that would be supplemental to or even replacements for traditional ways of learning ...