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A SIMILARITY-BASED ANALYSIS TOOL FOR SCIENTIFIC APPLICATION PORTING
(2013-12)Porting applications to a new system is a nontrivial job in the HPC field. It is a very time-consuming, labor-intensive process, and the quality of the results will depend critically on the experience of the experts involved. ... -
A Simulation Approach to Thermodynamics in Interfacial Phenomena
(2013-05)Industrial applications such as production of high performance polymer-nanocomposites, semiconductor fabrication, and catalysis involve molecular level phenomena governed by interfacial interactions. Precise control of ... -
A sociopragmatic study of gender and verbal politeness in United States Spanish
(2016-05)Due to contact with English, United States Spanish is undergoing a process of simplification which reduces the amount of verb forms that speakers regularly use. While some verb forms remain relatively stable, those which ... -
“A SPANIARD IS NO ENLISHMAN THAT I KNOWE” ANGLO-SPANIARD POLITICS IN EARLY MODERN THEATRE
(2014-05)Postcolonial studies of Early Modern English drama’s Moorish and Jewish characters, as elaborated by scholars such as Edward Said and Daniel Vitkus, have framed the discussion as a black (Moor/Jew) versus white (Protestant ... -
A Strategy for Mapping Threads to GPUs in a Directive-Based Programming Model
(2017-05)The proliferation of accelerators in modern clusters makes efficient coprocessor programming a key requirement if application codes are to achieve high levels of performance with acceptable energy consumption on such ... -
A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL INVESTIGATING PARENTAL RELATIONSHIPS AND GENDERED-FUNCTIONING AMONG MEN:
(2012-12)Attachment theorists posit that if young boys do not have caregivers who are emotionally supportive of them, as young men they may develop unhealthy levels of autonomous functioning, and, in particular, and adopt unhealthy ... -
A STUDY OF A TURNAROUND HIGH SCHOOL’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
(2013-05)Turnaround schools have been pushed to the forefront as a result of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 which endorsed a reform effort of standards-based education. NCLB asserted the fact that schools could no ... -
A Study of District Hiring Practices and Teacher Preparation Background and the Impact on Teacher Retention
(2013-05)Nationally, teachers leave the profession at rates of up to and beyond 50% after five years of service. Archival data from 2000 and 2005 was analyzed for a major suburban school district in Texas that hired 1,310 first ... -
A study of frequency dependent analyses on Stratton Oil Field, South Texas.
(2012-05)Frequency dependent analysis has been utilized recently by the industry. It allows the seismic interpreter to see features that could not be clearly seen when dealing with the whole frequency band. This could be related ... -
A Study of International Baccalaureate Middle Year Programme Participants' College Readiness Indicator Exam Scores and the Implications for School Leaders
(2013-05)The purpose of this longitudinal, non-experimental, causal comparative research study was to investigate whether a statistically significant difference existed between the college readiness indicator exam scores of students ... -
A Study of Literacy Coaches in an Urban School District
(2017-12-01)Abstract Background: Educators are under mounting pressure to address increasing standards for student performance, which includes meeting the needs of an equally increasing diverse student population. Building educators’ ... -
A Study of Neutron Production by Cosmic Muons in Liquid Scintillator
(2014-12)The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment is designed to measure the neutrino mixing angle, θ_13, with a sensitivity of sin^2(2θ_13) < 0.01 at 90% confidence level. Neutrons produced by cosmic muon spallation constitute one ... -
A Study of One Suburban High School's Transformation to Small Learning Communities
(2011-05)It was once thought that large high schools could offer a range of benefits including student body diversity, more choices for elective courses, greater opportunities for gifted students, and increased competition in the ... -
A STUDY OF RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PERCEPTIONS OF POSITION FIT, JOB SATISFACTION AND RETENTION IN TEXAS SECONDARY TEACHERS
(2012-12)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among teacher preparation pathway, perceptions of position fit, job satisfaction and retention rates in first-year and second-year secondary teachers (N=267) across ... -
A Study of Relationships Between Ninth Grade Centers and Student Achievement
(2012-05)In an era where ninth grade is the most populated grade level, and studies show that more students drop out in ninth grade than any other grade level, there was a need to review research to determine if ninth grade centers ... -
A Study of Superconductivity in a Series of Strontium Platinum Phosphides
(2015-08)In this work, the superconductivity in a series of strontium platinum phosphides was investigated. Three compounds, SrPt3P, SrPt6P2, and SrPt10P4, the latter two of which we discovered, were synthesized and characterized. ... -
A STUDY OF THE BELIEFS OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS: BELIEFS REGARDING THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND APPRAISAL SYSTEM TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS
(2012-12)This research study investigates how Texas school administrators perceive the Professional Development and Appraisal System (P.D.A.S.) in Texas as a means of establishing specific essential teacher qualities. What is being ... -
A Study of the Effectiveness of an Online Credit Recovery Initiative in Preventing High School Dropouts
(2013-05)According to the Texas Public Education Information and Management System (PEIMS) Student Data Report (2011), a total of 21,813 students in the class of 2011, Grade 9 cohort, dropped out. The focus of this study is to ... -
A Study of the Effects of Image Congruence on Customers' Brand Loyalty in Luxury Hotels
(2017)This study constructs a new model for investigating the relationship between image congruence and brand personality, challenges the existing research model in this field, and offers fresh insight into brand research. And, ... -
A Study of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme on Ninth Grade Student Achievement
(2014-12)The beginning of high school marks a significant shift in the academic demands placed on students (Roderick, 2006). In public school systems, as students transition from middle school to high school, they experience changes ...