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Effect of CEC, Salinity, Sand Content, and Particle Size Distribution on Mud Rock Properties
(December 2)Mudrocks are fine grained, extremely low porosity and permeability sedimentary rocks that contain significant amounts of clay minerals. These rocks are difficult to characterize their physical properties or test their ... -
Effect of Congruent Information on Information Processing in Over-The-Counter Drug Facts Panel
(December 2)Objective: The primary objective of this study was to assess the effect of congruent information obtained by chunking of information on information processing using over-the-counter (OTC) drug facts panel. The secondary ... -
Effect of Electronic Alerts on Nurses' Intentions to Perform Medication Education: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior
(2018-04-30)PURPOSE: Inadequate education about medications can increase the risk of medication-related errors. The national average of patients who reported that staff “Always” explained about medicines before giving it to them” was ... -
Effect of Exercise and Caloric Restriction on Renal Dopamine d1 Receptor Function in Obese Zucker Rats
(December 2)Obesity is a major risk factor for the development of hypertension and it is associated with hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia (type II diabetes), sodium retention and oxidative stress. However, the mechanisms involved in ... -
EFFECT OF MATERIAL CONTRAST ON ANISOTROPY AND DISPERSION OF LAYERED PERIODIC MEDIUM
(2014-12)In order to research the anisotropy and dispersion features of media with aligned fractures, models which approximately describe the media are constructed. For the case in which crack density is very high and aspect ratio ... -
Effect of Repeatable Regions on Ability to Estimate Copy Number Variation in Human Genome by High Throughput Sequencing
(December 2)Genomic differences (mutations) in humans are profoundly influenced by their distinction as either germ line (inherited) or somatic (developed over one’s life span). Such mutations can vary from a single nucleotide insertion, ... -
Effect of Reservoir and Completion Parameters on Production Performance in Gas Condensate Reservoirs
(2014-05)Production performance of gas condensate reservoirs with seven different fluid compositions was analyzed by a Modified Black Oil (MBO) model and was compared to a compositional model. Reservoir simulation for the MBO and ... -
Effect of Selective Up regulation of Prostacyclin Synthesis On Its Signaling And Vascular Protection
(2011-08)Prostacyclin (PGI2) is a very important endogenous vascular protector. It provides vascular protection through actions like vasodilatation, platelet aggregation and vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation inhibition and ... -
Effect of Spasticity on Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury
(2013-12)The basic goal of any rehabilitation program is to restore function and to improve quality of life. In patients with spinal cord injury, spasticity is one of the major complications which affects quality of life. The use ... -
Effective Identity Management on Mobile Devices Using Multi-Sensor Measurements
(2015-05)Due to the dramatic increase in popularity of mobile devices in the past decade, sensitive user information is stored and accessed on these devices every day. Securing sensitive data stored and accessed from mobile devices, ... -
Effectiveness of an undergraduate core curricula physical activity and obesity course on students’ health behaviors.
(2016-08)With more than half of college students falling short of government guidelines for exercise and nutrition (ACHA, 2009), effective interventions targeting young adults during this transitional time are critical. Research ... -
Effectiveness of Cache Pollution Attacks in ICN Cache Services
(December 2)Information-centric networking is a new technique for future Internet. The current Internet architecture was designed based on a host to host communication. In recent years there have been several efforts to replace the ... -
Effectiveness of Computer Based Safety Training versus Face-to-face Safety Training in Veterinary Clinics
(2013-05)This study found no significant difference between short term learning of safety topics in veterinary clinic regardless of whether face-to-face (FTF) instruction or computer based training (CBT) were used. The significant ... -
EFFECTIVENESS OF GIST REASONING TRAINING IN IMPROVING DISCOURSE, VERBAL REASONING, AND GENERAL COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN AN ADULT WITH RIGHT-HEMISPHERE DAMAGE
(2016-05)There is limited research investigating treatments targeted at remediating cognitive-communicative deficits associated with right hemisphere damage. This single case study investigated the efficacy of using a gist-based ... -
Effects of Adult Volunteers' Presentations on High School Students' Engagement and Intent to Stay in School
(2011-05)Education is a key component to building a successful life and completion of high school is a critical part of that education. The issue of students dropping out of school is one that is growing, despite many attempts by ... -
Effects of Angry Rumination and Distraction in Partner Violent Men
(2016-05)Although the tendency to ruminate is related to the frequency of intimate partner violent (IPV) perpetration (Sotelo & Babcock, 2013), it is unclear how intimate partner violent men react emotionally and physiologically ... -
Effects of Board Composition on Pricing of Charity Care among Nonprofit Hospitals
(August 201)In recent years, nonprofit hospitals have been steadily raising listed prices for patient care, primarily due to competitive pressures from for-profit hospitals, increasing costs, and regulatory pressures. Prior literature ... -
Effects of catastrophic blowdown on headwater streams of the Routt National Forest, Colorado
(2012-08)My study focuses on the effects of a severe storm event on headwater mountain stream morphology. In 1997 the Routt Divide Blowdown felled 13,000 acres of trees in the Routt National Forest, Colorado, causing massive amounts ... -
Effects of chemical substitutions and magnetic fields on multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials
(2013-08)We studied the interaction of the magnetic order or magnetic field with polarization or dielectric properties of solids, the so-called magnetoelectric (ME) effect. In this work, we particularly consider three different ... -
Effects of Distance and Grouping on Visual Attention for Static and Dynamic Displays
(2013-12)Naturally, our visual system receives a staggering amount of information from the environment. Mechanisms are needed to filter irrelevant information and select the most significant for our task. Since the static stimuli ...