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(2021-04-29)Objective: To determine and graphically represent the ways that language bilaterality is defined in Wada studies, and to estimate the prevalence of language bilaterality according to those definitions. Methods: A systematic ...
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(2017-11-27)Department: PsychologyLatino immigrants in the U.S. face language and cultural barriers in gaining access to resources. To overcome those barriers, many Spanish-speaking families engage in language brokering, in which children act as interpreters ...
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(2015-03-25)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThere is substantial heterogeneity within the population of children with language impairment (Bishop, 1998; Leonard, 2014). This heterogeneity has led the research community to consider the possibility of subtypes of ...
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(2017-03-21)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesChildren with hearing loss are at risk for vocabulary delays which can subsequently impact their language and literacy outcomes. Although direct vocabulary instruction can be effective, previous research indicates teachers ...
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(2020-08-20)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesTelepractice holds substantial promise in facilitating equitable access and cost-effective services for all school-age children, regardless of geographic locations, physical conditions, or socioeconomic status. The ...
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(2010-12-07)Department: PhysicsDevelopment of Lanthanide based nanomaterials and investigation of their optical and magnetic properties are explored in this dissertation. Europium sulfide is one of the most prominent classes of magnetic lanthanide ...
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(2008-04-01)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsReal time processing of hyperspectral imaging data of the kind acquired by Computed Tomography Imaging Spectroscopy (CTIS) presents some unique challenges in computational power and data storage. The general approach pursued ...
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(2014-12-30)Department: PhysicsIn the era of large-scale surveys for exoplanets, it is important to be aware of the pernicious false positives that can contaminate survey samples. In this dissertation, it is shown that all radial velocity surveys for ...
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(2018-04-06)Department: Computer ScienceThe continual proliferation of mobile devices, social media platforms, gaming consoles, etc., combined with the ever-increasing online user population has resulted in a data deluge. The traditional data management solutions ...
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(2017-08-07)Department: Mechanical EngineeringOver the last several decades, laser diode absorption (LDA) spectroscopy has emerged as a useful technique to non-intrusively interrogate fluid flows in numerous aerospace applications. Combined with recent advances in ...
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(2018-01-19)Department: Computer ScienceSystems-of-Systems (SoS) are composed of several interacting and interdependent systems that necessitate the integration of complex, heterogeneous models that represent the ensemble from different points of view, such as ...
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(2005-04-08)Department: Spanish and PortugueseIn Don Quixote, Cervantes captivates the reader with an unattainable Dulcinea, and he also presents to the reader a parade of female characters from a broad range of social, cultural, and economic backgrounds to portray ...
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(2015-07-29)Department: Mechanical EngineeringHigh speed turbulent flames can be found in most aerospace propulsion devices. In order to understand the behavior and phenomenological nature of combustion in these devices time resolved, non-invasive, in situ laser ...
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(2022-06-02)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceIn this dissertation, radiation effects and low-frequency noise are studied in advanced FinFETs. Firstly, we evaluate the single-event effects on devices with the promising InGaAs channel material and highly-scaled fin ...
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(2011-12-06)Department: ReligionRELIGION LASHON HA-RA (THE EVIL TONGUE) AND THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH UNITY CHARLES BERNSEN Dissertation under the direction of Professor Shaul Kelner The premise of this project is that the ancient rabbinic prohibition ...
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(2008-07-28)Department: SociologyThis dissertation examines the recent changes in the production of funerary ritual that have taken place in the United States. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic methods, I examine the case of the American funeral industry ...
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(2006-06-29)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesIn situ fossil stumps of Glossopteris are preserved in their original growth position in fluvial deposits of the Upper Buckley Formation (Upper Permian) in the Beardmore Glacier, central Transanctarctic Mountains. Roots ...
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(2013-04-15)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesThe first interpretation of the stratigraphic record of Holocene river-channel switching between the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and Old Brahmaputra paleovalleys is presented here in the context of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) river ...
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(2014-04-17)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesHere sediment provenance from 48 drill cores across a fluvial valley is used to highlight fluvial channel dominance, anticlinal Pleistocene structures, Holocene channel occupations, and Holocene tectonic channel steering ...
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(2012-03-31)Department: PsychologyThis study accounted for patterns of eating disorder (ED) psychopathology, bingeing, and vomiting using latent ED classes. A latent profile analysis was conducted using Eating Disorder Inventory scores of 2,247 females ...