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The Characterization and Scale-Up Parameters for a Steam Gasification Process using Wood as Feed
The demand for energy to sustain the economies of industrialized and developing nations has led to the search for alternatives to the use of imported petroleum fuels. Instability in the Middle Eastern countries, the major ... -
Perceptions of Teachers and Administrators of the Effectiveness of Block Scheduling in Mississippi High Schools
The call for reform to raise student achievement has required educators, school leaders, and researchers to look for new methods to improve the learning process. One method used increasingly is block scheduling. Block ... -
The Multiple Gate Mos-Jfet
A new multiple-gate transistor, the SOI MOS-JFET, is presented. This device combines the MOS field effect and junction field effect within one transistor body. Measured I-V characteristics are provided to illustrate typical ... -
Reactivationof Acetylcholinesterase Inhibited by Organophosphates in Peripheral Rat Tissues
The aim of this study was to determine the ability of twenty novel substituted phenoxyalkyl pyridinium oximes to reactivate phosphylated acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in peripheral rat tissues, in vitro, inhibited by ... -
Adult Emergence and Egg Distribution of the Heliothine Complex and their Impact on Bt Resistance Management in Agricultural Landscapes
Recently, cotton production throughout the southern U.S. have declined substantially. Additionally, the pest status of bollworm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), has increased in soybean. As a result, there is growing interest ... -
Men Like Us
Men Like Us is a novel about David, a factory worker in Comstock, Michigan in his late twenties, who attempts to understand the death of his friend, Ben, and choose a future for himself, even as all the paths leading into ... -
A Bit-Map-Assisted Energy-Efficient Mac Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
The low-energy characteristics of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) pose a great design challenge for MAC protocol design. The cluster-based scheme is a promising solution. Recent studies have proposed different cluster-based ... -
Non-Prescription Stimulant Medication use among College Students: Sharing and Selling Behaviors
The present study examined characteristics and factors related to nonprescription use of stimulant medications in college-aged populations. Prior researchers have shown that students do not perceive that taking these ... -
Perceptions of Mississippi State University Faculty towards the Use of Course Management Systems
During the past several years an increase in use of Course Management Systems (CMS) in higher education’s instructional infrastructure had been witnessed (Morgan, 2003). As a result, increased online education placed an ... -
Alcohol and Deliberate Self-Harm: A Moderated Mediation Model including Pain Tolerance and Borderline Personality Features
Alcohol intoxication has been associated with deliberate self-harm (DSH). However, the mechanisms underlying this relationship are poorly understood. The primary purpose of this study was to examine pain tolerance (PT) as ... -
Assemblage
The poems in Greg Williamson's 2008 sonnet sequence, A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck, all turn toward imagined experiences of death, skirting the line between life and death and illustrating the boundary that one crosses ... -
Development of a Hybrid, Finite Element and Discrete Particle-Based Method for Computational Simulation of Blood-Endothelium Interactions in Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe genetic disease, affecting over 100,000 in the United States and millions worldwide. Individuals suffer from stroke, acute chest syndrome, and cardiovascular complications. Much of ... -
Laser Spectroscopy for Material Characterization: Chemical Analysis Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (Libs)
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a powerful tool for performing chemical analysis measurements of materials, such as slurries, soils, plastics and powder samples. The LIBS technique has proven to be sensitive, ... -
Replenishment Cycle Inventory Policies with Non-Stationary Stochastic Demand
Inventory control problems constitute one of the most important research problems due to their connection with real life applications. Naturally, real life is full of uncertainty so are the most of the inventory problems. ... -
A Ghazal for the Ends Of Things
In Eavan Boland’s Domestic Violence, it is through the conflation of the secret with the female body that secrets become the way to simultaneously expose, as well as mediate, one of Boland’s most often addressed themes: a ... -
The First-Year Principal: An Autoethnography
In their various works, researchers, writers, and scholars regularly discuss the public school building level principal. The principal’s role and the tasks performed by the principal are generally recognized as valuable ... -
Safe Spaces
The scope of LGBTQ characters in fiction is wholly limited. When an LGBTQ character makes his or her way into a story, that character is usually flat and static and becomes a caricature rather than a whole character. My ... -
Identifying Factors affecting the Presence and Abundance of Invasive Tree Species in Mississippi
The presence and spread of invasive tree species have caused great ecological and economic damages. Previous studies usually ignored the role of socioeconomic factors and seldom treated presence and abundance as different ... -
The Educational Attainment of Minority Learners who Attended 2-Year Colleges Compared to Caucasian Students
In this educational study, Caucasian and minority learners’ grade point averages and overall academic success were examined at learning institutions. Several minorities experienced problems with completing college courses ... -
A Study of Selection on Microsatellites in the Helianthus Annuus Transcriptome
The ability of populations to continually respond to directional selection even after many generations instead of reaching response plateaus suggests the presence of mechanisms for rapidly generating novel adaptive variation ...