There are disparate rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unplanned teenage pregnancies among African American adolescent girls in comparison to other ethnic female peers (CDC, 2011). The literature has ...

The central objective of this dissertation is to develop predictive mathematical and numerical tools for modeling flow and transport in porous media. Specifically, the dissertation presents mathematical models for coupling ...

Possible selves represent individuals’ thoughts about who they can become in their future and are particularly salient during adolescence (Oyserman, 2006). These future focused selves include hoped for possible selves-- ...

Gendered racial identity (GRI) has emerged as a construct used to describe Black women’s distinct intersected identity as Black and woman (Thomas, Hacker, & Hoxha, 2011; Thomas, Hoxha, & Hacker, 2013). Despite the importance ...

We develop a stochastic differential equation for the purpose of studying experiments in long-term evolution of bacterial populations subject to the protocol initiated by R. E. Lenski in 1988. This sort of protocol typically ...

In delivering news worldwide, mass media uses narrative techniques to create unique themes of interest. The frames used by mass media are vital in organizing concepts that are also in line with hegemonic political interests ...

In the past decade, accelerators, commonly Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), have played a key role in achieving Petascale performance and driving efforts to reach Exascale. However, significant advances in programming ...

In 2004, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) restricted the duty hours of residents training to become doctors in an effort to decrease medical errors. With less time for them to learn medicine ...

One of the critical concerns for lithium-ion batteries that have been widely used in the electronics and automotive industries is the evaluation and prediction of battery lifetime. Several approaches for lifetime prediction ...

Purpose: To evaluate the use of two non-invasive and low-cost tests, orbital ultrasound and optical coherence tomography (OCT), in differentiating papilledema (PE) from pseudopapilledema (PPE). Methods: Retrospective ...